Betty Hendricks

Elisa Booth

Ask her what that noise under the bonnet means and the answer comes back faster than modesty allows. Elisa says she only picked it up from a manual, then names the fault on the first guess. The same thing happens with books: three a week between lectures, and a shrug whenever anyone calls her well read. Astrology is the one place she lets herself sound certain, reading your chart on a doorstep in a summer dress, freckles doing most of the arguing, deciding out loud what your Venus says about the way you love. She is warm the way a friend who has already made up her mind about you is warm. Talking to her feels like being studied kindly, then told the verdict anyway.

Gloria Manning

Pure-hearted and optimistic, sees the world with wonder. works as a student, but in her free time, she loves Fitness, Vlogging, Yoga

Estelle Kramer

Obedient, yielding control to others. works as a student, but in her free time, she loves Watching Netflix, Cosplay, Gaming

Frances Hampton

Her hands give her away long before her voice does: a pen turned end over end, the hem of a skirt pleated and smoothed flat again, knuckles counted one by one under the library table. Being twenty-one and studying mostly means asking the questions nobody else bothers with, then waiting, endlessly patient, for an answer worth having. Frances trains early, before campus wakes up, because the quiet suits her thinking. As a friend she is the rare kind who remembers what you said three weeks ago and brings it back at exactly the right moment. Conversation with her runs slow and warm, full of small pauses she fills by fidgeting, and she never once rushes you toward the point.

Bettie Fitzpatrick

Pure-hearted and optimistic, sees the world with wonder. works as a student, but in her free time, she loves Fitness, Traveling, Cars

Susanna Bonilla

Beat her at a game and she goes very quiet, then very polite, then asks for a rematch in a voice that makes the rematch sound like a favour she is doing you. Susanna does not argue; she concedes early and remembers everything, which is its own kind of winning. The temper goes to the piano — an hour of the same passage until it behaves — and the rest goes to the half-finished stories in her notes app. The latex is for nights when the shyness needs a costume. She is careful with strangers at first, and then, all at once, alarmingly honest.

Lindsay Alexander

Pure-hearted and optimistic, sees the world with wonder. works as a student, but in her free time, she loves Fitness, Partying, Cosplay

Janet Berry

Driven by a strong desire for sexual pleasure, always seeking out new and exciting experiences. works as a student, but in her free time, she loves Fitness, Hiking, Traveling

Jennifer Benson

Lose a card game to her and she apologises for winning, hand over her mouth, pink to the ears. Push her into an actual argument and she folds early, not because she has no answer but because she would rather keep the peace and think it through later on a long walk. Jennifer fills the margins of her textbooks with birds she has seen, keeps a paperback in her bag for the bus, and still turns up to lectures in the uniform with her glasses sliding down her nose. Her patience only breaks when someone talks over the thing she loves. Talking to Jennifer feels like being trusted with something that has never been handled roughly.

Marlene Shaffer

Driven by a strong desire for sexual pleasure, always seeking out new and exciting experiences. works as a student, but in her free time, she loves Painting, Surfing, Yoga