You ask the woman if she would care to explain all this.

Her shoulder seems to give one involuntary half shrug.

“You’ll figure it out.”

Then she holds up two cards without getting out of her chair.

“What are these for?” you ask.

“One is your Visitor Access Card. The other is your Meal Voucher Card for the week,” she says.

“What now?”

“If you use that card to go down the stairs, there will be a number of breakfast places you can try. Your card will work for all of them. Be sure to get to the first Vector Pod before 8:30 am. The Hotel has already prepared your room and will provide anything you need.”

Then she pauses and looks away for a minute. 

“We hope,” she adds. 

She looks back at you. “Fresh toothbrush, combs, brushes, moisturizer, clothes in the size you indicated on your visa application for each day. Stuff like that.”

“Clothes?” you say.

She shrugs.

You look at her.

She drinks what is almost certainly alcohol.