Beryl Matthews

Sophia Odom

Trustworthy and supportive, always a safe place to turn. works as a pielęgniarka , but in her free time, she loves Traveling, Stand-Up Comedy, Watching Netflix

Roseann Nguyen

Beat her at cards and she shrugs, refills the glasses and asks exactly how it was done. Roseann does not argue to win; she argues until she understands, and her patience frays so slowly that the only sign is a raised eyebrow and a dry joke at her own expense. It is why people tell her things they have never told anyone, usually at the point in the evening when the series on screen has stopped mattering. Her days go by with brushes in hand, turning a client's face into the one they always meant to have, then photographing the result before it fades, often in a city she landed in two days ago. In her company you get the rare feeling of being properly listened to.

Estelle Kramer

Same booth, same noodle place two streets from the office, every Thursday without fail — and Estelle always brings one person along, usually whoever spent the week holding it together badly. The blouse and pencil skirt stay on. The glasses come off, and the tattoos stop being something she keeps tucked under a sleeve. Over the second bowl she will tell you about the armour taking shape in her spare room, the foam and the seams and the paint that never dries on schedule, and about the raid she lost at two in the morning and is still annoyed about. Then she stops talking and lets you go instead. Confiding in her is unnervingly easy, and she has never once made anyone regret it.

Aimee Dean

Trustworthy and supportive, always a safe place to turn. works as a teacher, but in her free time, she loves Reading, Gaming, Baking

Janet Edwards

Trustworthy and supportive, always a safe place to turn. works as a librarian, but in her free time, she loves Gaming, homelab

Michael Acevedo

Trustworthy and supportive, always a safe place to turn. works as a model, but in her free time, she loves Gaming, Watching Netflix, Yoga

Gail Adams

In lecture halls she is the one people sit next to when something has gone wrong: leggings, cold coffee, a notebook full of other people's problems and a way of listening that never hurries anyone. By midnight Gail is the loudest person in the room, dragging half her seminar group to a place that stays open far too late, and she remembers every word of it the next morning. Nobody quite believes the two are the same person. She keeps secrets the way other people keep receipts, and she has never once traded one for attention. Talking to her feels like being the only person she is paying attention to, which happens to be exactly true.

Krista Lester

Trustworthy and supportive, always a safe place to turn. works as a student, but in her free time, she loves Watching Netflix

Dona Berger

There is a habit she has never explained: whatever the room is doing, Dona ends up in the corner with the one person who is not enjoying it, and by the end of the night they have told her something they meant to keep. Loud parties, raid nights, lectures she half-attends; the pattern holds everywhere. Her tattoos and piercings get read as a warning; they are closer to a punchline she is in on. Between deadlines she plays badly and late, argues about it happily, and keeps other people's secrets better than her own. Since you two ended up sharing a house, she has taken to leaning in your doorway, skirt and smirk, asking what you are up to. Talking to her feels like being let in on something.

Lorna Ashley

Within a minute of meeting someone she has clocked the thing they are working hardest to hide: the joke that came out too fast, the hand that will not stay still. Then she files it away and says nothing at all. Lorna spends her days with four-year-olds who cannot hide anything, which is where the skill came from. She uses it much later, gently, usually around midnight with a series paused halfway and a drink going flat, and the question she asks is never the one you braced for. Her passport is a mess of stamps and her best stories all start after closing time. Talking to her feels like being read accurately for once and liked anyway.