I got it in before anyone could ask, on the way past the front desk,
loud enough for the floor:
first session, going to be embarrassing, ignore me.

The one person who answered said — everyone's first one is —
and went back to the leg press.

I had built a defence for a siege,
and turned up to find the gate open and a queue for the drinking fountain.

The Book of the Beast — Arrival 31:8