Arriving to meet with Bernard

Traffic was beginning to get thick (lunch hour?) but thankfully the taxi driver was able to slip through the worst of it. Your mental urging seem to have worked.

"Got business to attend to?" the driver casually asked.

"Just someone I need to see." Fortunately the conversation didn't continue much beyond there.

When he dropped you off, you found yourself in an industrial estate. Around you were large buildings, you saw a drapery place nearby with the windows full of fabric, a piano company, and many buildings with the name of multiple companies on signs outside of them. You entered a plain 3 story building with a Bernard Woodworking sign on it and found yourself in a plain but neat reception area with the narrow stairs plainly visible. Through a door you could see what looked like a workshop, with the occasional sounds of hammer and saws. You focus your attention towards the elderly bespectacled woman at reception. "I'm here to see Bernard? I believe he's expecting me." Your voice really did seem softer and more soothing somehow.

"Yes, he's expecting you." She directs you up the stairs (no elevators), and you try to navigate them with the awkward heels, hunched over to with documents still in hand. You navigate a narrow corridor of office doors, before finding one labelled "Bernard Woodrow", you knock and enter a modestly sized office.

A blond haired, youngish, energetic man looks up expectantly. After waiting for him to start, you take the initiative.

"Hello, my name is Jane Johnson. I'm here on behalf of Raymond Teller from Ernest Lumber. He asked me to personally deliver these documents." You mince forward, with an awkward flashback to doing the same thing to Raymond earlier that day.

"Yes, he mentioned." Bearnard says simply. You drop the documents neatly on his desk and look back at Bernard. He wasn't hugely moved one way or another. You really don't have to do anything more than that, you could leave now, but with everything Ray said, you feel you have to make a minimum effort to "schmooze" the client.