Road made a noise of open disappointment. She'd have liked a welcoming committee. It seemed like a bad idea, in the long run, not to have someone greet members at the door and herd them off to different parts of the Palace so that you could limit how much they ran into each other.

Then again, it might be much more interesting to let them just stumble into each other from the outset.

"Maybe there's no one here to make trouble with," she said, sounding a little bit disappointed in that possibility. She turned, following her senses towards a doorway further in. It was closed, but she could feel people beyond it. "We should find someone to show us around." There was no telling what might run into them, otherwise.