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She's a four-year-old girl, and people (especially her Dad) insist she's a boy.
Not that she isn't sometimes. She is. But not today! Today she's a girl. And Dad keeps saying that's not true, that God made her body perfect and she shouldn't second-guess God's plan for her. God made her a boy, so she's supposed to be a boy. And on the one hand that kinda makes sense. God doesn't make mistakes, right? So if she were really a girl sometimes, then she'd... what? Her body would change, she guesses. But on the other hand, she knows she's a girl. She's a girl with a peepee, that's obvious. She'd prefer not having a peepee when she's a girl, but it's not the worst thing ever. And if God doesn't make mistakes, God also didn't make her feel like a girl sometimes on accident, right? It must be part of His (because God is always a He, even though God made everyone, boys and girls, in His image, he's always a He, Dad says) plan.
She tells Dad that, today, and Dad gets angry, and yells at her, and she doesn't know why he's yelling. It makes sense to her! But he won't explain why she's wrong, he's just yelling, Dad's so mean, she hates him, and she's not crying, shut up, you're crying!
And now Mum's coming and she's talking to Dad, and that usually makes Dad stop yelling and go away but he won't stop now and Sadde's angry and afraid and hurt and she's running away. A part of her thinks that it doesn't make much sense to run away, the park is pretty open and she can't really hide anywhere, and she'll have to go back because she'll get hungry (not now, though, she just ate a sandwich).
So she runs until she finds some bushes where she can hide, and she hides there, and she doesn't cry, and she spends a long time not crying. Mum and Dad don't come after her, though, and after she's done not crying she doesn't wipe her eyes and her nose, and she comes out the other way of the bushes she was hiding in.
And she's pretty sure that's not the park.
Promise and Yellow do not attempt to interact with the receptionist.
Mortal leads them to the lift and presses the button to call it, and the doors open immediately. She steps into it.
Promise falls over when the elevator rises.
The lift opens to the third floor, and Mortal steps out.
Fairies follow her to the rooms.
They are next to each other, and are equipped with two beds, two bedside tables, a desk, a closet, a TV, and a medium-sized bathroom each. "Do you know how to operate the bathroom?"
Promise looks at it. "No," she concludes. "Also, do you have a strong preference about whether I put Yellow with you or me?"
She looks at him. "I feel very terrible about him being—like that—but you have twenty years' experience with him, you probably don't want him around and he probably deserves it." Assuming she's acting in good faith. "You can leave him with me. Anyway, that is a shower and that is a bath, you turn these things to produce water and you plug this hole to fill the bath with water, you can use that to wash yourself. This is shampoo, you can use it on your hair to clean it, and this is regular soap which you use elsewhere. That's a sink, you turn that thing to produce more water to wash your hands, that's a toilet, you probably won't need that."
"Thank you. Yellow gave me your name of his own will, if that makes you feel any better."
"It... makes me feel something. I don't know if the word I'd use is 'better.'"
And she goes to bed next door.
And she locks her own door and, likewise, crashes on the other bed. It takes a while for her to actually fall asleep, but then she's out, hoping nothing urgent will come up.
He ignores Yellow and goes to the bathroom to take a shower and pick a change of clothes from his backpack and feel in general not as terrible as the previous day.
As long as he doesn't think much about it.
Then he returns to the room. Is Yellow up?
Yellow's awake and sitting up and reading the room service menu quizzically.
...he's not sure what he's supposed to do with the sadist in his room. But he won't go to Promise's room because she might be asleep and there aren't any emergencies around. Also he doesn't want to see her.
"It would be safe for us to eat this mortal food if you fed it to us," Yellow mentions.
"Do you want anything in particular from that menu?"
"I don't recognize any of the pictures. The plants are probably fine to eat."
"For mortals. I don't even know what some of these things could possibly be but the fruit looks like fruit."
He walks over to Yellow and offers a hand for the menu.
Yellow hands it over. Seems like his general not-very-interesting behavior has more to do with him not being very interesting than with him being under snug orders.
Mortal orders fruits and a salad and a fruit salad on the phone.
Yellow hides behind the bed when room service comes along. Room service provides plant foods.