Zach and Derot realized that it was both inefficient and risky for Derot to try and sneak through the city to the hotel. Instead, Alzara used the cover of the night to go to Derot at the guild's headquarters to debrief whenever anything of note happened, such as a development in the name of the guild.
Zach was close to coming up with something that he, his maids, Derot, and the alchemists could be satisfied with. He could feel it.
But other than that, not much happened in the hotel room. Outside it, however, Derot was busy putting out fires, both literal and figurative. The other merchants' attacks on the goods they needed to craft potions and their interference with sales were relentless.
If Derot hadn't continuously found and come up with new ways to get ahold of the necessary ingredients and sell potions, the guild would have already been forced to halt its business. Fortunately, Derot was handy.
