The five soon left the restaurant after a sumptuous meal. Free food tastes much better, and they happily anticipated the sleep they could enjoy in their free rooms too. Room, actually, they never planned on separating.
As for the second room?
Richard and Shawn paid in advance for a month. So Theo planned to keep it empty for their recruits.
Lilia knew how to arrange the event in a new city, so they followed her lead. The first step was that meal they had – by talking about her intentions to the waitress and the alchemists, the news was going to spread.
Next, they took a trip around the city and found a platform that was available three days later in the core part of the city, as well as spread the news even further by mentioning it to other people in the passing.