“Really.” That was fascinating, and also not a feature of any Commission facility he’d ever been in. “In that case I may start looking for permanent markers and a big enough wall.” Five looked down and his mouth screwed up briefly as he remembered that he was shorter than he used to be. “And a stepladder, I guess.”

If the ‘big enough wall’ was a corner it might also neatly solve the ‘child checking in without an adult’ issue by bypassing it. That was something.