Chapter Four:

Something that rarely managed to amaze the residents of The Velvet Hotel was the sheer malleability of The Gap's relations between willpower and the laws of reality, even if it was very impressive for someone who wasn't normally living there. While the building itself and the outside was a very fixed and unshakable point in The Gap, the inside and internal layout of the building was just as malleable as the rest of The Gap. It didn't at times really make sense nor did it have to. One second, one could have been walking through a hallway lined with rooms on both sides, the next, one could have wound up where they wanted to be with the hallway nowhere in sight, on the opposite side of the room one was standing in or in a different room connected to the room one was in.

A room in The Velvet Hotel that was frequently subject to change, depending on who was using it, was the bathroom/baths. While the room wasn't necessary for the residents of The Velvet Hotel, they still enjoyed a nice bath every now and then when not on the job as Assistants and Attendants of The Velvet Room. The most that changed in the bathroom/baths was the size and shape of the baths/bathtub. Due to the fact that the residents could basically be considered adults, they usually just relaxed in the bath, which was what made it different when the young Planeswalker, Holly Potter, enjoyed her bath in a rather large bathtub with a few bath toys, including a rather adorable red and orange squid-like creature, a lavender aquatic dinosaur-like creature and a grey and purple whale-like creature. Being a child, her bath wasn't just a normal warm bath but a bubble bath that had bubbles in all the colors of the rainbow, something that was achieved through the malleable nature of reality of The Gap.

Standing outside the bathroom, the residents of The Velvet Hotel could be found discussing how they were to explain the situation to the five year old girl bathing on the other side of the door. Some of them had better ideas on how to do so than others. While the other two had come with both decent and downright good suggestions, it was the suggestion that Elizabeth had made that was promptly shot down, causing the other residents of The Velvet Hotel to facepalm and Margaret wish that she actually could get drunk and forget Elizabeth's suggestion of simply having Lavenza walk in, explain the situation and possibly join Holly in the bath. The hangover would have been worth it, but while Margaret could enjoy a drink every now and then, she couldn't get drunk and the same could be said for her siblings… not that they actually drank, especially Lavenza who hated the stuff after an incident when Elizabeth thought it'd be funny to swap everyone's tea for a particularly strong whiskey that had a near-identical color as their tea. An incident which led her and her siblings to be skeptical about anything that Elizabeth had a hand in.

However, before the residents of the Velvet Hotel could reach any solid conclusion about how to inform Holly about the situation and explain it to her in a manner which she could understand, the young Planeswalker seemed to consider herself finished in the bath as the sound of the water being drained out of the bathtub. Willing a folded set of clothing roughly in Holly's size (give or take a couple sizes) into reality, which loosely resembled a version in various shades of blue of the school uniform worn by a previous guest of the Velvet Room, a Makoto Yuki if Elizabeth remembered correctly (as she was the one who willed the clothes into existence)… or at least the female version of the school uniform, which was more appropriate since Holly was a girl while Makoto had been a guy.

"Here. These should be about your size." Stated Elizabeth while opening the door to the bathroom just enough to place the folded clothes on a stool near the door before closing after herself, all while making sure to not actually look inside.

"Thank you!" Replied Holly rather cheerfully on the other side of the door as Elizabeth closed the door. "Nice threads, they're even my favorite color, blue."

"Smart choice there, Elizabeth. How did you know that she liked blue?" Theodore couldn't help but ask his older sister.

"Lucky guess. Besides, it's not like the rest of you would have given her clothes in a different color."

"She's not wrong/True/Touché." Replied the rest of the siblings, being unable to deny that all of them would have given Holly a set of clothes that would have been some shade of blue, prompting Elizabeth to let out a chuckle.