Uh... m...aybe. Uh. Uh. The house contractor does not have access to that domain and is kind of scared to get it!

Oh. Then nevermind. She wouldn't want to make them uncomfortable. Can she look out onto the void, then?

Sure! He can arrange that. Does she want windows? What should her door do when not connected to here? Does she want any other amenities? Mortals have sometimes asked for individual washing rooms, although that's not common and gods don't really need it, but some gods like having those anyway. Does she want a bed? A vase? A mirror? Posters? More vases? Pillars? Maybe a vase here? Plants? Bookcases? Books? Vases? Closets? Perhaps vases?

She is delighted by the contractor's enthusiasm! It's very cute. Actually if space isn't really an issue, she'll take a sort of... set of rooms? Washing room included, please, she doesn't need it but she'd like it. Yes bed! Yes mirror, yes plants, actually she can make a little set-of-rooms model and they can collaborate on it? With plenty of vases. Because it makes him so happy.

He'd love that so much!!! Gosh this is so exciting, he almost never gets to work on gods' quarters anymore, it's almost all just for the newly deceased. Which isn't bad, mind you, but gods just have such creativity, the mortals are often so very shy and want small places no matter how much the house contractor tries to convince them to go bigger. And there's Zagreus, of course, who over the past however much time has been renovating the place a lot, but this is different anyway.

Once they settle on a design, the house contractor has a price: it'll be sixty thousand gems, please.

Oh, currency. That makes sense. Where does she... earn currency. She wanted to get a job draining the fire water in Asphodel, would that pay her currency?

That would probably get her a shitton of currency in the house contractor's opinion! But it's a pretty outlandish idea so she would probably need to get it directly from Lord Hades rather than be paid by anyone else.

Okay. Nervewracking, but okay. Thank you very much contractor, she'll be back to pay you for your services once she has acquired the local currency with which to do so! She'll keep a copy of the rooms so all of their details will be saved without worry. The contractor should also feel free to let her know if they'd like models for other things, too, Yvette can make them pretty easily, and this was fun.

Honestly, if she's ever looking for less world-changing jobs than, uh, fixing all of Asphodel, the house contractor would love to have her around to show the recently deceased the possibilities of their eternal abodes and help with visualisation and whatnot.

That sounds like a fun side hobby! Probably not as a main job, but she likes to keep busy. Would the contractor like to have a little goddess mote follow them around to help with visualization? She's not literally the goddess of multitasking but she's very, very good at it.

...gosh? Yes, yes he they would like that very much! He needs to draft a contract, though, even if it's just a contract saying she's doing this for free. House rules.

Probably for free would overwork her, actually, because there are quite a lot of dead people. She can take, uh... five percent of the gem cost of the final cost of to-be-built-thing to display and edit a model of the place? Can that part of the contract allow edits later, she doesn't have a feel for how pricing works in this economy yet.

Yeah, sure, they can have a provisional contract to be revised at a later point, here it goes: it appears out of thin air, in parchment, and a quill writes out the details floating in front of the contractor as they arrange the terms. When they're done, it floats over to Yvette so she can sign it.

She reads it over carefully, because she's a responsible person, and makes sure all wording is properly unambiguous, and then yep! She signs it.

Here is a little mote of night, happy to pal around with the house contractor and make models.

The house contractor is VERY EXCITED about this.

Adorable.

Okay, so how does she see about getting a job to drain Asphodel? From Lord Hades himself? Presumably she doesn't literally walk up to him and demand a job, does he do scheduled meetings or something?

Well, he has a schedule for special appointments but something like this the house contractor thinks would just take her going to the back of the queue and... waiting. Probably? He's honestly not sure, the meadows have been like that for decades maybe even centuries.

All right. Thank you, contractor, you've been massively helpful and also a delight to interact with.

She will keep her internal grumbling about the structure of this place to herself. Going to the back of the queue and waiting sounds so inefficient, though. The queue seems to be for complaints of all kinds, which is fine, but she’s offering a solution, not a problem to be solved. Isn’t there some kind of nepotism equivalent for divinity? Maybe she should ask Nyx. She sections off another mote of herself to hold a place in the queue, in case this is literally the best way to reach Lord Hades (which would be very dumb), and then goes off to find and ask Nyx.

"Lord Hades does demand that within his halls all are treated equally until and unless they are part of the staff. There is, however, a request form that can be submitted to request an accelerated audience, should Lord Hades deem it worth the trouble."

... Okay.

She fills out the appropriate request form, resists the urge to fill it out obnoxiously in favor of being obnoxiously perfect, and it poofs off to presumably request that Lord Hades not make her wait in the queue for ages so she can literally fix his problems for him. Admittedly for money, but still. Then the rest of her joins the mote that was holding her place in line.

Hades doesn't look at the appearing form immediately; it would be very unprofessional to stop his current task just because something shiny showed up. Instead, he finishes dealing with whatever the first shade in queue needs dealing with, and only once they're dismissed does he look at the form.

...then he spends a good minute reading and rereading it with a deepening frown. Once he's made sure this is reality and not a prank, he looks up at... her. Kind of. Not exactly with his eyes, but with the presence of the Lord of the House, the one that can perceive and affect all within its domain. She can pretty much feel his gaze despite being too far down the line and behind too many people for actual eye contact.

And then she feels a tug.

She could in fact decline the summons, if she wanted to, but she doesn't. This is exactly what she requested. Off she goes, to where she was tugged. (This part of her, anyway. The mote hanging out with the house contractor is still in fact hanging out with the house contractor.)

"Thank you for seeing me so quickly," she says politely, because she is about to ask this guy to be her boss, so. Manners.

He stares at her as soon as she teleports to him with—well it's always a glare, she'll probably need to learn to identify minute differences in his glares to really know what he's thinking. In this case it might be some extra annoyance at him having noticed the split second she took to teleport to him, which is longer than other people would have taken and implies she could have resisted his summons.

Lord Hades does not appreciate it when people can resist being in the right place.

After a couple of seconds of this he says, "Care to explain yourself?"

This was literally in the paperwork she just filled out but okay fine. She'll say it out loud, too.

"I think I can transport a lot of the flooded waters of the Phlegethon into a self contained subspace of un-reality, thus removing Asphodel's flooding problem. I'd like to do that in exchange for a market rate appropriate salary of gems and getting to personally devour 1% of the collected flood waters. The rest I will keep in storage for you as property of you and your realm until and unless you ask me to put it somewhere else."

"Yes, that was on the form," he says with a grudging tone. "How will you prevent the flooding from happening again?"