The quirk of a smile didn't go unnoticed, but Izzy accepted the comment in the spirit it was offered just the same. She looked over everything again, making sure the connections were in place and that nothing had been disturbed during setup.
"Well, if it works it'll measure magical energy like you would radiation. In which case this gauge here-" she pointed to a gauge on one side of the contraption "-will budge. The problem is there is no literature on this idea, none. If anyone else has conducted serious experiments like this they aren't saying. So it could be I have it set too sensitive and the needle will hit the other side in a heartbeat, but I figured better to try to see if there's anything to see than worry about getting it exactly right. To quote Elon Musk: If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."