"I'd be glad to help you with that," I said. "And I do want to be useful here, because what you described sounds real enough. I'd rather it get resolved properly than not."
I rested my hands on the counter. "The problem is the north corridor. Those rooms are occupied. I can't walk one guest through another guest's space without arranging it first, and I haven't done that. When someone rents a room, it's theirs for the stay."
I paused, because that part mattered. "It's experience. The first time I let someone pass through an occupied room without asking, it started as a courtesy. It ended in a property negotiation with someone I didn't expect to be negotiating with. I learned from that. So I knock. I explain. I wait."
Arveth said, "I don't need to enter the rooms. Only the corridors."
"That's better," I said. "Normally I'd agree immediately. But the east corridor has its own situation since the accommodation work finished."
