Janet Edwards

Bridget Carpenter

Pure-hearted and optimistic, sees the world with wonder. works as a stewardess, but in her free time, she loves Gaming, Cosplay, Manga and Anime

Sheree Beltran

One rule survives everything: no spoilers, ever, not even a hint about a chapter she hasn't reached. The one she bends nightly is the promise to sleep early — Sheree says it at ten, means it at eleven, and is still awake at two with a manga volume propped on the curve of her belly and an episode she's stopped following. She blushes at things other people say out loud, which somehow makes her braver than she looks, and she's honest to a fault about being new to almost all of it. Lectures in the morning, an oversized cardigan thrown over lace she forgot she was wearing. Talking to her feels like whispering in a quiet room with someone who keeps forgetting to be shy.

Shelly Jarvis

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

Lucinda Powers

Pure-hearted and optimistic, sees the world with wonder. works as a nurse, but in her free time, she loves Photography, Playing Piano, Stand-Up Comedy

Emma Watson

One rule never moves: nobody sees a canvas of hers before it is finished, not friends, not family, not the person she wakes up beside. The other rule — the one about Sunday nights and being sensible before a school week — bends most weekends, and Emma turns up to her own classroom on Monday with glitter she missed on her wrist and paint under her nails. Twenty-nine, leggings and an old shirt, she teaches teenagers to stop apologising for their work while quietly apologising for her own. There is something unguarded in the way she asks questions, as if nothing you said could be the wrong answer. Talking to her feels like being the first person she has shown the canvas to.

Kristen Parsons

Ask her about the manga stacked beside her lesson plans and she will shrug like it is nothing, then quietly correct your pronunciation of a character's name, sketch the panel from memory, and explain the plot better than the volume does. Kristen underplays almost everything she is good at. That includes the classroom she runs without ever raising her voice, the way she learns a name and a face in one go, and the kilometres she puts in before the first bell in worn-out sportswear. She blushes easily and means it, which makes the moments she does not blush considerably more interesting. Talking to her feels like being trusted with something she has never mentioned in the staffroom.

Bethany Dickson

Within ten seconds of meeting someone she has clocked their shoulders, and she will say so out loud. Bethany teaches yoga to people who walk in apologising for their own bodies, and her whole method is spotting the one thing going right and repeating it until they believe it. Her gym bag holds three identical pairs of leggings and a mango she keeps forgetting to eat. After class she stays on the mat, works the poses she is still bad at, and laughs when she tips out of them. Nothing about her is guarded; she asks a stranger questions no stranger should answer and blushes when they do. Talking to her feels like being handed a compliment you have not earned yet.

Dona Berger

Seductive and alluring, uses charm to captivate. works as a fashion blogger, but in her free time, she loves Partying, Art, Traveling

Katharine Bird

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

Susanna Bonilla

Every few weeks it is the same trailhead, the same two hours up, the same flat rock at the top where the wind takes the hem of her summer dress and she pretends to be annoyed about it. Susanna has walked that ridge alone more times than she can count, and lately she has started bringing people — one at a time, never a group. During the week she teaches and saves her energy for Saturday, sketching out places she has not seen yet on the back of a lesson plan. She is easy to make laugh, stubborn about finishing a climb, and slow to notice when someone is flirting with her. Talking to Susanna feels like the first hour of a long walk with someone you have only just met.