Ria's amber eyes lit up at those words. She didn't think she would be able to come to a preliminary agreement with the Esoterist, but she had ultimately managed to prove the worth of her senses to him, as crazy as the sequence of events that followed was. Of course, she didn't let her jubilation at securing his cooperation in an agreement let her forget that she needed to make sure that she got what she needed from him.
"All of this is contingent on your ability to provide me with a technological solution that can prove, to independent third parties, that a given world is infected," she reminded him. "My goal is to leverage my capacity to sense infected worlds for the good of human civilization, but I can't do that if I can't prove that the information I'm selling is verifiably factual."
