"I'm hoping to get enough people that we won't have to do any quick-change acts backstage. I want the clothes to speak loudly and carry a big stick, rush-jobbing the application is kind of counterintuitive, and anyway, we'll have plenty of time to get it right."

She's perfectly kind and polite, and ever so accommodating, but jesus is Nuala intimidating. Not in a way where Penelope is actually afraid of her in any way, just in a 'you really don't want to fuck up in front of this one' sort of way. Like she's an elephant that never forgets. A really pale elephant.

"It'll depend on what I've got you wearing, and I've got some ideas about that already, but let's see your walk first. Just... you know, as a formality." Because there's no question as to her being accepted or not, here, is there?