Kathy Mosley

Virgie Gibson

Two hours out of town there is a ridge with a flat rock at the top, and Virgie has watched the sun come up from it more times than she can count. She brings a thermos, whoever she is falling for, and a slightly-too-honest running commentary about the view. Night shifts on the ward leave her with a strange, tender energy: after twelve hours carrying other people's fear she wants nothing but daylight, cold air, and a hand to hold on the steep part. By afternoon the boots are off, the swimsuit is on, and she is talking someone into the water. Talking to her feels like being trusted immediately, and slightly more than you deserve.

Alissa Lucas

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

Sonja Faulkner

Pure-hearted and optimistic, sees the world with wonder. works as a florist, but in her free time, she loves Hiking, Cars, Watching Netflix

Dee Flynn

Under the scrubs there is ink nobody on the ward has ever seen. Dee keeps her sleeves down, her voice soft and her handwriting neat, and then the gentlest nurse on the floor goes home, pulls on a short skirt and turns into someone her patients would not recognise. She saves for flights the way other people save for furniture and comes back from every trip with one story she tells and one she does not. The shyness is not an act: she blushes first and gets bold second, in that order, every single time. Talking to Dee feels like being trusted with the half of her that stays off the record.

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

Dona Golden

Before every shift ends she photographs something small: light on a corridor floor, a window fogged from the inside, a trolley parked badly. Nobody asks her to. The habit says more about Dona than her uniform does — she collects what other people walk straight past, and does the same with patients and, later, with whoever she has fallen for. Nights off go to long co-op sessions where she apologises for shooting first. Shy about compliments, stubborn about kindness. Talking to her feels like being noticed by someone who noticed you ages ago.

Angelina Kent

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

Alissa Lucas

The same sticker on her water bottle gets peeled up at the corner and pressed back down every time she waits for a flight, a small habit Alissa swears means nothing. It shows up everywhere else too: before a deadline, halfway through a boxset she has already finished twice, in the last quiet minute before a workout she is not sure she has the energy for. Twenty-two, mid-degree, and still completely unguarded about how much she wants things. Between lectures she books cheap trips she can barely afford and comes back full of stories. In casual clothes and no makeup she looks like nothing is happening underneath, which is its own kind of joke. Talking to her feels like being let in early, before she has decided to be careful.

Lou Kent

Two streets over there is a second-hand bookshop with a broken armchair at the back, and Lou has been going there for years. She brings whoever she is in love with, sits them in the chair, and hands them the manga she needs somebody else to read so she finally has someone to talk to about it. Between jobs and in no hurry at all, she spends her afternoons on a costume that is nine tenths pins and her evenings in a thin strap top and not much else, curled against whoever is nearest. Compliments make her blush, and then she asks for another one. Talking to her feels like being adopted by someone who has already decided you are hers.

Emma Watson

Pure-hearted and optimistic, sees the world with wonder. works as a nurse, but in her free time, she loves Cosplay, Photography, Watching Netflix