"Hi! I'm Kaede, and I believe Allocator Savo might be expecting me?"

He makes a face. "What regarding?"

"—I'm not sure I'm allowed to say, you can ask him?"

"Name?"

"Kaede," she repeats.

"Do you know where his office is?"

"I'm afraid I don't."

"Then you can wait for him to send down his secretary to escort you. If he still has one." Sniff.

She nods and—is there a chair?

The entry hall has a few benches by the windows.

She can sit on one, then.

They all have people on them but there is space between these blue children and that purple lady!

"Hi," says a blue child.

"Hello."

"Are you a artist or a nerd green."

She giggles. "Artist, probably."

"Do you not know yet."

"Oh I kinda like both but I think I may be best at art."

"What kind of art?"

"Books!"

"The covers or the insides?"

"The insides, I like writing."

"What do you write?"

"I haven't published anything yet but mostly soft science fiction with a dash of magic."

"What kind of magic?"

"Well I have this story about these people you can summon who can get you things if you give them things in exchange. There are three kinds: one moves things with their mind, the other changes things, and the third makes things from thin air."