Gathering: New Guest Reception

[concierge]

The black sign positioned in front of the Dining Hall's main entrance reads:

New Guest Reception
TODAY
6 PM - 8 PM

All guests welcome

In the Dining Hall itself, the chairs have been pushed up against the walls and the long dining table turned into a buffet stocked with finger foods. At the far end of the room is a small bar serving beer, standard cocktails and non-alcoholic drinks.

Comments

[dogchasingcars]

Intriguing.

Cocking your head, you give this Nick a pointed look.

Yet you survived, you scrawl. Impressive.

The boy doesn't look like much, and yet he overcame an apparent world-wide catastrophe. That counts for something. What, you're not sure yet, but you suspect this one is much more than meets the eye. Fortunately, you have two of those (unless you get bored one day and decide to take one from a fellow hotel-goer), so you decide it might be good to keep close watch on this one.

[hearnospeakno]

Lucky. Nick shrugs, his dismissiveness of the whole thing a little too tense. He doesn't like being looked at that way; part of it is being used to invisibility, but that hasn't been true for a while, has it?

This man might be (must be) crazy, but there's a sharp, crackling insight in the way he looks at Nick. He just doesn't know what's being seen.

And what's your story? He might as well ask. Fair is fair.