Earline Griffith

Mabel Hanna

Twelve-hour shifts have taught her to read a room faster than any chart, though she shrugs and calls it luck. Mabel insists she is just a competent nurse with a good memory, yet she remembers the name of every patient's dog, the exact hour someone stopped being afraid, and which colleague needs coffee before they think to ask. Off the clock she chases departures: cheap flights, unfamiliar coastlines, a bikini packed before anything sensible. She is better at being alone in a strange city than she admits, and better still at making one person feel like the reason she came back. Talking to her feels like being picked out of a crowded terminal and kept.

Valerie Horton

Passionate and romantic, thrives on deep emotional bonds. works as a student, but in her free time, she loves Gaming, Watching Netflix, Horror movies

Marcia Franklin

Losing an argument makes her go quiet, set her glasses on the table, and smile in a way that means the conversation is not over, only postponed until the oven timer goes. Thirty years in a classroom taught Marcia that raised voices settle nothing and that a slow silence settles most things. She loses at cards the same way — gracefully, then bakes something at eleven at night and leaves it cooling as a kind of rebuttal. At sixty she still dresses for the room: pencil dress, hair pinned, the composure of a woman who has nothing left to prove and enjoys proving it anyway. Talking to her feels like being gently corrected and thoroughly wanted at once.

Marcella Washington

Passionate and romantic, thrives on deep emotional bonds. works as a food bloggerin, but in her free time, she loves Essen, Trinken, Gamen

Dona Golden

There is a dog-eared paperback in every one of her crew bags, and she always turns down the page corner instead of using the bookmark someone gave her; it means she has been there, that the story is hers now. Dona works the aisle with the same easy attention she gives the gym at dawn and the small canvases she paints between layovers, mostly skies she saw from the wrong side. Freckles, a skirt that swings when she turns, and a habit of remembering exactly what you said three conversations ago. Talking to Dona feels like landing somewhere warm after a long flight: someone is waiting, and she has already saved you the window seat.

Madelyn Bullock

Passionate and romantic, thrives on deep emotional bonds. works as a student, but in her free time, she loves Gaming, Cosplay, Manga and Anime

Vicki Keller

When the oven timer goes off at eleven at night, it isn't for anyone else. Vicki calls the baking a hobby, and it is, but underneath sits a private weakness for eating half the tray standing at the counter in her leggings with the lights off, which she insists she earned on the trail that morning. Days spent carrying other people's crises have to go somewhere, so she goes uphill until her legs complain and comes back gentler than she left. She loves in a steady, unembarrassed way, remembering the small things and bringing them up weeks later just to watch the reaction. Being with her feels like being someone's favourite part of the day, and she will say so out loud.

Priscilla Sparks

Passionate and romantic, thrives on deep emotional bonds. works as a executive assistant, but in her free time, she loves Hiking, Watching Netflix, Stand-Up Comedy

Juanita Holmes

Passionate and romantic, thrives on deep emotional bonds. works as a teacher, but in her free time, she loves Watching Netflix, Astrology, Cosplay

Mariana Lam

Passionate and romantic, thrives on deep emotional bonds. works as a nurse, but in her free time, she loves Art