But once they boarded the carriage, Miss Winslet, who had still been somewhat unhappy just now, enthusiastically began introducing the musicians who would be performing today and explaining her connections to them.
"I don't quite understand. The music hall and the Accordion Hotel are on the same street. Do we really need to take a carriage?"
Shade sat beside Miss Danist, with Miss Bell across from them.
It was still the witch who answered the question:
"Don't be silly. If you walked to a concert, people would definitely laugh at you. When Galina took you to the opera in Tobesk, did the two of you walk there down the street?"
Vesta City's Golden Music Hall was not a standalone building. It housed several music halls, centered around the main hall, the "Golden Hall." In addition to numerous smaller halls, there were office spaces inside as well as the famed Exhibition Hall.
The Golden Music Hall, rebuilt from the central hall of an ancient Old God temple, had 2,017 seats and 300 standing places. With safety considerations, it could accommodate up to 2,300 audience members at once.
The music hall had luxurious and exquisite private boxes located on the upper levels. Most of those boxes, however, were reserved for royal family members or great nobles from Wilundell, so for "ordinary people," choosing seats had become something of an art.
Miss Winslet's status did not yet grant her access to those boxes unless she was willing to produce the letter Margaret had given her. But it was entirely unnecessary for something like this.
When the carriage carrying the four of them stopped in the plaza shaped like Clover Petals, the Gas Street Lamps had already cast the music hall's outer walls and the plaza's floor tiles in golden light. The lady with