In the luxuriously decorated hotel, plump steam-powered service robots shuttle through the chattering crowd, holding wine glasses.
"Attendance at yesterday's performance sharply dropped by a quarter. I believe this was affected by the content of the second act of 'Giant Lake.'
"In the two days since the second act was released, we've received at least ten anonymous threat letters, all of which, without exception, demanded that we remove the parts about the clockmaker's apprentice Liang Hui and replace him with someone else as Jane's companion. Fortunately, in yesterday's play, Liang's part started to normalize."
"Dorothy? Are you listening? Dorothy?"
Dorothy seemed a bit distracted, she sighed and anxiously ran her fingers through her rose-red hair: "Yes, manager, I'm listening."
The performance manager of Black Rose Theatre was a balding middle-aged man whose fat belly was almost bursting through his white shirt.
