...But what can she possibly do about this?  She's not a mage; she ran into arcane theory in her youth and bounced right off.  And that's probably what she'd need to make things less loud for Desta.  ...Perhaps one of her colleagues knows enough to help, for all that they're busy and she can't leave her kids to go looking.

(If she'd known beforehand that this would happen, she would have asked her relief to take this batch; Niriel Cethena, for all that she would protest the description and say things like 'I didn't graduate from the Academy' and 'I can barely cast class-two spells' and 'you know that that's not actually how being like me works, right', definitely has the eyes of a mage (according to Giselda).)

(To say Niriel Cethena has 'the eyes of a mage' is both true and false: true because due to a quirk of fate or wild coincidence she was born with a heightened ability to exert her will on reality relative to baseline - one that is reflected in her glowing eyes - but false because those are not just mages' eyes, even if that is the most common path for people like her in the Kingdom of Villarosa.  Niriel Cethena, by temperament, is most like a druid, for all that she is too busy with important work to study that craft.)

There are some hobbyist mages and enchanters amongst the staff, regardless of Niriel's circumstances.  Benevolent coincidence appears to have fetched Giselda's group up next to one of them - a man who weaves enchantments into his knitting.

"...Excuse me, but - Arthur?  I'm sure you're just as busy as I am, but - I don't suppose there's anything you could do to help with -" she gestures at Desta, in lieu of spelling everything out.

"...I can try, at least."

His fingers twitch through a series of somatic components as he attempts to invert some basic enchantments that make sound into a temporary spell to suppress it.  ...Thank goodness Esme had already asked him about this sort of problem, it's fresh on his mind - was this why?

...It might not last as long as he'd like, but it might last long enough regardless.  Now he just needs to deliver it -

...Opal is watching him.  Suspiciously.  You're not supposed to touch people without their permission!  Even if - okay it looks like he isn't doing that.  And it sounds like he's trying to help.  But still!

"Ask nicely!  ...Wait.  Um.  I'll do that."

There's a menu on the side of the paper that Opal shows Desta, but she's pointing to 'Miss G asked this guy if he could help with the noise.  Do you want him to?'