Some people have just been leaving the convention every day during the lunch break and not coming back, but Gastó is pretty sure that's a bad idea! The more time you spend at the convention, the better chance you have of someone picking you out as someone worth hiring for a speech. The price they'll pay for your vote has gone way down now that the voting's secret, but that's only a problem if you're scared to talk, and Gastó is pretty sure the archmage is way scarier than anyone who might get mad about his speeches.

Still, that leaves him with a lot of time to kill.