She has the night guards clip radios to their belts in case they need backup, hands out the dispelling charms she didn't have in stock earlier in the day, and goes to sleep. Lily can handle the night shift.

Lily, unlike Thorn, doesn't need to sleep. This doesn't mean she doesn't get bored. So she starts setting up an increasingly complex alarm and countermeasure perimeter. All of it is quite sound and sensible, it just covers altogether too many weird one-off cases to not seem overly paranoid.

One of the new guards is fascinated by the exotic security measures. The other sticks to diligently doing his patrols and checking in. Nobody tries to break in overnight, though people do start lining up well before 9 AM.

Thorn wakes after her customary four hours of sleep and goes to the door to hand out free samples of hard candies and jellies in colors not native to this world. Everyone in line this early gets a handful as Thorn thanks them for their patience and their interest. 

Lily, meanwhile, is waiting impatiently for the staff to show.

The staff all show up around half an hour early, dressed nicely. Lindis earliest of all. (She buys a Dyne). One of them tries to get in the back and trips a security measure, and says they just felt awkward walking past so many people waiting.

Lily keys off her silent alarm and gives the errant staff-member a raised eyebrow, but nothing much more happens than a mental note they're not good around crowds. She lets her manager manage and hangs around to troubleshoot special cases.

Thorn, meanwhile, goes back through the portal and fetches a Clematis.

Clematis comes through with four holstered wands at her side and a satchel of Ka, wearing a white uniform with a blue Rod of Asclepius on the shoulder. 

"Hello, everyone! I'm Clematis, the staff doctor. Before we begin this shift I'm going to very quickly examine and treat everyone, one minute per person. This onboarding treatment is part of OTC policy and will not count against your casts for the year. Everyone please line up!"

The procedure is simple: A cast of Diagnosis followed by Cure Disease for infectious diseases, Neutralize Poison for environmental toxins, or Cure Serious Wounds for current injuries (including ulcers and so on) as needed. Diseases caused by aging are treated with enough Ka to put them into remission. Genetic diseases are unfortunately not covered under this level of the OTC healthplan. 

Her manager seems to have the cashiers well in hand. Though she does casually mention that she'd like to pop her head in for further cashier interviews.

Lindis the commission-seeking cashier also mentions that she has a line on someone in Reykjavik who would like to buy multiple thousands of ka and intends to hire mages to make seals en masse to pay for it. Can she get more information on which seals are worth how much, presuming the seals perform acceptably?

The staff line up obediently and are mostly uninjured and not sick. One of them turns out to have an early stage of cancer. One has an old bullet wound that's been bothering them, friendly fire accident, can he cut out his scar and then get healed? None of them have genetic disorders.

Lindis's ka prospect is also interested in pricing genetic therapy to apply immunity to the infection, what would Clematis or Thorn need to figure that out?

Lily is fine with allowing her manager to outright make hiring decisions for cashier positions, with simple signoff from her. Her manager knows the people here better. 

Lindis is informed that most seals are likely worth on the order of fifty OTC and the boat or ship seals in particular are likely closer to seventy-five. 

The one with the battle scar can have it healed away directly with a little personal attention from Clematis, no knife need be involved. 

For immunity genefixing Clematis would need, best to worst, an isolated sample of the immunity gene, a fully mapped genome from someone who's immune, or a blood sample from someone with known immunity. Gene treatment would then cost significantly but it would be possible. 

She knows they do medical research in Iceland and will look into whether they have the gene isolated or at least a fully mapped genome! Blood from an immune person won't be hard to get in the worst case; She's immune.

The rush is a little less rush-y today, but they get a few larger orders. Two journalists show up throughout the day as well, one from Iceland and one from the little island that is all Denmark has left of itself.

Thorn entertains the journalists while Lily focusses on handling the large orders. Clematis takes a blood sample from Lindis if she'll give permission for it. She makes it clear that for the sample she's acting as a representative of an interworld charity organization and not directly for the OTC. Whether Lindis gives permission or not, Clematis vanishes through the portal quite quickly afterwards. 

Lily passes information about the trade council representative up the chain and is informed that a Morning-Glory will come speak to them when they arrive. She sets aside an office to be a conference room and another for secure lodgings for the Morning-Glory while she's in this world.

Lindis would honestly rather not. But one of the other cashiers is also immune, and willing, and glares at her slightly.

Marit comes back with a small stack of boat-improving seals in the afternoon. She spots Lily and asks, "Oh, are you another one of Thorn's not-quite-hers?"

She nods and smiles. "Just so. We can run a good-sized branch all on our own, us Stars. You're here to sell some more seals, I see; I've been instructed to offer you sixty OTC per as a closer guess at the final price." 

"Oh, quite nice. OTC is doing some testing to see how well they hold up, or some such, I presume? I've made a couple of small variations, see, it's not like wizardry, they're not stable spells that only work the exact same way each time. Would appreciate feedback and to know the design considerations if you're the right person for that. -I'm reading the basic training manual, Thorn and an Eva got it for me, but I'm not all through it yet."

"I'm told we offered a test batch of duplicate seals for sale on a particularly storm-tossed world and all of them were snapped up at a price of seventy-five OTC per. I'd have to connect you with someone in particular from there to get you design specifications, which is unfortunately above my pay grade - interplanar connections require the authorization of at least a Morning-Glory, though some of us have been known to bend the rules from time to time. Usually for people you could call "family" though. I'm glad to hear someone reads the manual; someone quite like me wrote it." 

"Well, I suppose you must make a profit. These will work better on wooden-hulled ships, and even better if I can work them direct onto a hull." She separates them into three stacks. "Small variations, losing about a fifth of everything else to bump one aspect about a third. Storm-handling, hull strength and resistance to wear, protection from attack by sea-beasts. It's starting to sound like the OTC is mostly composed of- Stars."

"If you're interested in painting sigils directly onto boats for better effect, you could do that and get to see another world in the process by signing on as a contractor with us. We'd provide transport to the other world and translate your pay in local currency into OTC or Kroner minus a five percent cut. You'd probably be paid better, too.

Speaking of well paid, Storm-handling and  protection from attack from sea-beasts are likely to sell extremely well. Specialize some sigils to those and you could make a hundred per sigil or more.

As for us, we're about a fifth of all staff, and one of us sits on the board of directors. We're particularly thickly spaced in Acquisitions, we practically own the department."

"A fifth... It sounds like it'd be a good way to dip my toes into this. I'm not a boat expert, though. Should get some lessons from someone who is before I do that, I think."

"Yes, it's quite the number. We're very prolific, and good at our jobs. I agree further training might help you get the most out of contracting; that decision's up to you."

"Mmh. For these I want a needlessly large rod to bribe a Finn I know, then. I think they'll get some use out of it, though I don't know how exactly Finnish mages work. And some ka and takkarash with the rest, I suppose. I'll be heading off to look for that training soon. I really like what a few ka has done to my life, though."

"Antiaging magic is one of our best exports and it's so cheap. It's rare to find a world where five years doesn't matter; I'm glad we have enough outliers to pay for all this though." 

She pulls the needlessly large rod out of a bin that could probably not contain a staff that tall, and offers it along with the rest of Marit's purchase.

Marit thanks her and leaves. There's someone later trying to figure out if a few purchases of spiderglass could stabilize the badly neglected bridge to the Old World. And one person wants a return/refund because they misunderstood what the Eternal Pipe was for. Other than that, not much of interest happens over the next two days.

By the time the train-driver guy who wanted a security job shows up, they're pretty well stocked up on security guards. Lindis develops her lead on a many-thousand-ka sale with an expensive live radio call to Iceland, and discreetly inquires into what her commission percentage will look like. She also finds out that they have a pretty good idea which genes mark immunity but don't have it narrowed down to one in particular, and gets appropriate medical information sent over and then forwarded to Clematis.

The representative from the trade council arrives on Sunday, five days after they opened, and sends a letter asking for a two-hour meeting block.

Spiderglass would certainly help stabilize the bridge to the old world; no guarantees or warranties to its safety, however. The eternal pipe is refunded without comment. 

The train-driver will be hired as additional security for an important meeting, and in any case they are likely to expand to additional offices soon. 

Lindis is doing a fantastic job and if she closes this deal she'll be promoted to sales team. She'll also earn a commission of ten percent on the deal.