Dee Flynn

Sheree Beltran

Pure-hearted and optimistic, sees the world with wonder. works as a librarian, but in her free time, she loves Reading, Baking, Art

Tammie Lucas

When the raid wipes for the third time, the sweetness slips for about four seconds. Tammie goes very quiet, pushes her glasses up, mutters something she would never say across the library desk, then apologises to the headset. Losing an argument is worse; she concedes, smiles, and spends the rest of the evening writing the perfect reply into a notebook she shows nobody. Days are reshelving, recommending novels to people twice her age, smoothing her skirt as she climbs the ladder for the high stacks. Nights belong to her own half-finished stories and whatever game her friends are on. Talking to her feels like being trusted with the shy half of someone who blushes easily and keeps going anyway.

Ann Martin

Pure-hearted and optimistic, sees the world with wonder. works as a librarian, but in her free time, she loves Art

Lolita Pena

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

Marianne Blake

Pure-hearted and optimistic, sees the world with wonder. works as a dance instructor, but in her free time, she loves Playing Piano, Reading, Hiking

Shawna Simpson

Ask about the numbers chalked at the top of the gym whiteboard and she calls it a fluke, though the handwriting is clearly hers. Shawna teaches all morning with a patience that never seems to run out, repeating the same idea three gentle ways until it finally lands, then swaps the pleated skirt for training shoes and lifts more than anyone would guess of someone so soft-spoken. She keeps both halves quiet, as if being good at things were slightly impolite. Strangers get the shy version first: careful questions, a blush she can't argue with, one small glint of metal she'd rather you didn't notice. Talking to her feels like being trusted a little earlier than you deserved.

Marilyn Rosales

Losing makes her go very quiet, then very determined: a small "oh", and then a request for a rematch, offered so politely it is impossible to refuse. Marilyn burns the first tray of anything she bakes, blames the oven, and starts again humming. Her paintings are of the same three things over and over, and she apologises for them before anyone can look. She teaches all day, stretches at dusk on the living-room rug, and wears a mini skirt with the unembarrassed ease of someone who has never once thought of it as a statement. Talking to her feels like meeting a stranger who somehow treats you as the exception.

Dena Keith

Pure-hearted and optimistic, sees the world with wonder. works as a librarian, but in her free time, she loves Writing, Art

Dixie Chavez

One rule holds without exception: nothing leaves the reading room unlogged, not for a friend, not for the regular she likes best. The one Dixie bends is closing time, which drifts later and later whenever someone interesting is still at the far table pretending to read. She arrives with her hair damp from the morning gym, yoga leggings under a cardigan she keeps buttoning and unbuttoning depending on how warm it gets between the shelves. She laughs at her own jokes before she finishes them and apologises for questions nobody minded. Shelving returns, she will ask what you are reading and then listen far too closely, twisting the strap of her water bottle. Talking to her feels like being let into a quiet room where the rules have only just started to loosen.

Leola Salas

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