Marble chairs and sofas with cushions that looked softer than the pillows on Isaac and Lenna's bed at home, were arranged in efficient patterns across most of the first floor of the building, which Lenna had been led inside. There were dozens of structural pillars that branched into large trees to distribute their supporting strength across a wider area of the floor above them. The pillars all had strengthening enchantments to assist in holding up the rest of the twelve story building. The floors were a mosaic of limestone, marble, granite, brass, and oxidized copper, that depicted forests with fluttering butterflies and prancing deer.

Lenna was led up to a granite concierge desk with two identically dressed women, with golden blonde hair and emerald eyes, standing behind it. The soldier that had offered Lenna his horse had led her to the desk and he had stopped in front of the closest woman. "A room for two, royal dignitary level." The soldier told the woman.

The woman nodded and then bowed towards Lenna. "And what are the names of our esteemed guests?" She asked while grabbing a pen. She readied herself to write down the names next to which room they would be staying in.

"Isaac Wexler." Isaac stated as he appeared directly next to Lenna with a swoosh of shadows that rapidly dispersed back into invisible mana. The woman at the counter jolted slightly with a sharp inhale but then quickly wrote his name down. "Demigod of Darkness." He continued and the well lit first floor dimmed from only a bit darker than the outside to pre dawn light. The woman froze and looked up from her book with barely suppressed terror at the local environment being entirely arrested from the standard perfection by simply a word from their newest guest.

The concierge swallowed. "A-And how should our staff address you…" She hesitantly began and waited for him to answer with said address.

The room had just started to go back to normal when Isaac answered. "Lord Darkness." He stated and the room immediately darkened again.

The entree hall was so silent that a pin drop could've been heard from across it. There were two tall elvish men in royal looking robes who had stopped right at the bottom of the stairs, they had been on their way down, when Isaac had first said who he was. They remained frozen in shock and awe at the spectacle. They were aware, as most were, that invisibility magic would be instantly countered inside city limits but that had obviously not stopped Isaac from vanishing and reappearing whenever he felt like it. That alone was enough to garner a level of shock, but his words altering the environment was something that only ancient dragons, ancient spirits, or gods did.

The woman at the counter nodded and wrote again in the large book in front of her. When she was done she turned towards Lenna with a frightened but questioning look. "And you?" Her voice squeaked and she paled even more.

"Lenna V'Nova." Lenna stated calmly. A chill ran down every high elven back at the mention of her name combined with who she was next to. The larger soldier unconsciously gripped his sheathed sword and Lenna, without even looking at him, blasted her aura outwards in all directions, only marginally shielding the women behind the counter. It didn't hit nearly as hard as if she had directed it at anyone specifically, but she was still recovering so she didn't want to force herself to focus it too much and doing so would have prevented Isaac from helping her. Something that he did by burning just a bit of death flames inside of his chest. The combined primal fear of a predator and instant awareness of mortality brought both receptionists to their knees as well as the mage soldier. Lenna immediately reined in her aura and Isaac cut his death flames to allow everyone a chance to recover. She slowly looked over at the soldier next to her who had grabbed his sword which started the entire thing. "Release your sword, soldier." She told him so calmly that his body listened without him even realizing it. She turned back and waited for the concierge to recover.

Isaac looked over at the other soldier who hadn't dropped to his knees. "You, finish the task." He ordered him.

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The soldier was momentarily taken off guard by Isaac's order but then quickly nodded. "Y-Yes, my Lord." He replied and hurried around the counter to where the woman was still collapsed on the ground. He reached down and picked up her pen from the floor and then quickly started skimming the page to get an understanding of the layout and where he was supposed to write. "L-e-n-n-a?" He asked Lenna for clarification.

Lenna, for her part, had no idea how else someone was supposed to spell her name and just slowly nodded. "I assume you can spell my surname without my assistance." She stated with the same deliberate calmness that she had brought to every interaction with them so far.

The soldier nodded and started writing. "Yes, ma'am- um, my Lady." He corrected himself. "What should I have the staff address you by, my Lady?"

"Lady V'Nova is fine. Lady Hellfire is what the humans call me so that is fine as well." She explained.

The soldier nodded and wrote both down in the necessary location. "It looks like your room is number three on the tenth floor." The soldier informed them. "Are there any special requests? There is a space to write them." He asked and looked back up at the duo.

"Black out the lights at all times unless the staff need access and we are not there." Isaac informed him. "The light is mildly annoying."

The soldier gulped and wrote down what Isaac had told him before he bent down next to the concierge who had pulled herself together but had yet to muster the strength to stand. "Now what?" He asked her. "A key?" She gestured towards a place behind the counter and the soldier quickly dug for the key. He found a pair of them easily enough and handed them across the counter to Isaac and Lenna. "Do they need anything else?" He asked the woman who shook her head.

"Breakfast two hours after dawn, lunch at noon, dinner at dusk, kitchen is always open." The woman said without thinking. "Enjoy your stay."

Isaac nodded and covered the key in shadows before he tossed it to the side. The key vanished into his inventory and the shadows dispersed. Lenna just held onto her key. "Thank you." Lenna told both the concierge and the soldier. "Where do we go?" She asked no one in particular. Lenna felt her hand get nudged and she looked down to see Gypsy who then nodded towards a sliding door. "That way?" Lenna asked and Gypsy nodded in the affirmative. Lenna started walking towards it as Isaac just appeared there. "You've been here before?" Lenna asked Gypsy who nodded again. "Well, thank you."

Isaac tapped a brass plate with golden enchantments infused into it. Nothing happened so he took out his key and tapped it against the plate. This time the plate started to glow and the door opened. A large '10' was projected onto the far wall of the very tiny room that met them. Isaac's eye twitched as a headache started to worm its way behind his eyes. He walked inside, along with Lenna and Gypsy. Gypsy nudged a brass plate that was on the inside of the room and then looked at Isaac's hand that was still holding the key.

"I got it, thanks Gypsy." Isaac told her. "I think we can take it from here."

Gypsy nodded and walked back out of the room. She gave the duo a nod and then started silently trotting towards the large stained glass doors that had let them enter the building.

Isaac touched his key to the plate and the door closed them in. "Isaac, what is happe-n-ing?!" Lenna's voice raised an octave in surprise as the entire room started to rise into the air. They felt as they were taken up ten full stories in around a minute.

"It's a thing." Isaac told her and rubbed the side of his head. "Probably something that Walter made. It's giving me a headache."

Lenna nodded. "This is definitely something beyond elvish comprehension." She said with a strained voice. Lenna very much did not like the moving room. As soon as they reached the tenth floor, the door opened up again to let them out. Lenna practically lunged out of the room and onto normal flooring. Isaac was a bit more casual in his exit but he was also very glad to not be in the moving room anymore.

The pair found themselves in a long hallway that had seven doors, three on each side and one at the end, despite it being nearly a hundred feet long. Their room was easy enough to find and the door to enter and leave worked in the same fashion as the moving room. There was also a staircase that wrapped around the vertical shaft of the moving room the entire way to the ground floor. "Let's take the stairs next time." Isaac commented.

"Oh gods yes." Lenna said in half a breath. "I never want to use that contraption ever again."

Isaac chuckled. "I didn't like it either but it wasn't that bad." He told her. "Let's just wait in our room for Walter."

"What about lunch?" Lenna wondered.

Isaac shrugged. "Maybe there is a plate to summon food. There seems to be one for everything else." He replied and Lenna nodded absently while the pair headed to their room. The room was about as extravagant as they had expected. A bed ten feet across in each direction. A bathtub that was just as large. A table the same size with eight chairs around it. A balcony built into one of the building's tree branches. A wardrobe full of towels, silk robes, and slippers. A walk-in closet with enough space for four hundred separate outfits and at least twenty pairs of shoes. A pair of sofas and four sofa chairs. An office with a desk as big as Izen's with an even more comfy chair. On and on it went. By the end, Isaac was just shaking his head. "This is ridiculous."

Lenna nodded. "Agreed."

"Oh, hey, I was right." Isaac said and walked over a line of brass plates with what each did written above them. "Lights for each room, room service, meal delivery." He read and then tapped the 'meal delivery' one with his key. "Looks like we'll be having the good lunch the soldier mentioned after all."

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