Here we go

Circe fluttered behind the contestants after her last announcement, stopping before a pair of ornate wooden doors that Marcus could swear weren't there a moment ago. "Now, if you would follow me." Circe said when she saw that everyone else was still seated.

"C'mon people, what are we waiting for?" Alex said as she jumped out of her seat and spun around on one foot, but she didn't to take her new balance and digitigrade feet into account, which made her stumble and trip. She reflexively tried to catch herself on her hands as she fell, but she opened her wings instead, which caught on the air and dragged them behind her as she face-planted with a small "Oof."

Circe giggled as she bent down, hovering lower to speak to the prone redhead. "Maybe for you to re-learn how to walk?" She then fluttered back upwards in front of the door while everyone else stood up, except Wilhelmina.

"Are you alright?" Asked Catherine as she knelt beside Alex, the latter taking care to close her wings while she pulled herself on all four before answering.

"Yeah. It didn't hurt at all, in fact." Alex didn't notice Catherine offering her a hand as she stood up, wobbling slightly at first but quickly finding her balance. As Catherine rose back up as well, Circe then called her. "Oh, Catherine? Could you be a dear and give Miss Hartman a hand, please?"

Catherine turned around, noticing that the wheelchair-bound woman had yet to move, aside from raising a hand to flip Circe off. The ex-blonde sighed, thinking that angering Circe wasn't a good idea as she walked up to Wilhelmina's wheelchair and started pushing it, turning them around as Marcus passed them by. The slime woman gave her a small apologetic look as they caught up with everyone around the still-waiting Circe. The doors opened as soon as everyone reached them, and Circe immediately fluttered through, with everyone else following her after a beat.

The room they then found themselves in had a dark floor, with spotless white walls and ceiling, painted a slight orange by the setting sun visible through the window behind them, which was taking up most of the wall there and with no sign of the door they just went through. The room was mostly empty, aside from a couple of tall potted plants and a small table against the wall on their left, a door on their right, and a flight of stairs and an elevator in front of them.

Circe turned around to face the others as they took in the room. "Welcome to your new, temporary residence. It's a little late to give you a tour of the place, so I'll just show you to your rooms now, and you'll be free to explore the premises at your leisure starting tomorrow. Catherine, Miss Hartman, we're going to the first floor. Everyone else follows me up the stairs." Jared grumbled a bit at that, the imp having to hold her now oversized pants so they don't fall off.

Everyone joined back up upstairs a moment later in a wide corridor similarly decorated as the room downstairs, with only three doors on the left wall, opposite the elevator, before Circe spoke to them again. "The rooms here are for the contestants. Inside, there's a connected bathroom and each of you will have a wardrobe containing a few of your outfits that have been adjusted to you, as well as a phone. This phone works like any other phone, except you won't be able to use it to contact anyone that isn't part of the show or post anything on the web, and you will be able to check your VPs, BPs and the BP Store from them. Now, as you've surely noticed, there are only three rooms, meaning that you will have to share. Catherine and Miss Hartman have the first room, Miss Hawthorne and Jared have the second, and Alex and Alice have the third. Your rooms are unlocked, and there are no keys. Marcus will reside upstairs, in the Master's Suite. The only way to get to it is by the elevator, and access to it is restricted, though Marcus and I will be able to come and go there as we please. I would advise you to go to bed. Better to be fresh for the challenge tomorrow." And with that she fluttered to the elevator, shortly followed by Marcus, while everyone else went to their room.