"No."
"Pretty please?"
"What part of patients only do you not understand?"
For the last twenty minutes, Cassie had been engaged in tense negotiations with the floor director, Curiel Melioratus, who was in charge of the mana saunas.
Cassiel must have explained their needs at least five times before reaching this point, and it was only because Cassie name-dropped certain members of her house that they'd even gotten this far.
"Why not? No one's told us anything about why we can't just use them when they're available."
"I'm afraid I just don't have space in the schedule. There's been a lot of mana deprivation cases ever since the expansion of workforces in the mycelium layer," the floor director sighed. "And even if I did, the policy is patients only. If we were closer to the beginning of the fiscal year, I could make the argument for limited recreational use, but it's just not in the budget and we're already strained for crystals. That's why."
