Lorna Ashley

Kayla Wagner

Assertive, commanding authority. works as a boutique owner, but in her free time, she loves Photography

Mabel Hanna

Assertive, commanding authority. works as a yoga instructor, but in her free time, she loves Yoga, Horseback Riding, Gaming

Janet Edwards

Assertive, commanding authority. works as a nurse, but in her free time, she loves Pottery, Mountain Biking

Lolita Pena

Reality dating shows run on mute behind her evening stretch routine, and she calls that part of the cool-down. Lolita teaches yoga the way a good witch runs a circle: low voice, precise corrections, a hand on your shoulder that means stay there until I say otherwise. Between classes she reads birth charts and will explain exactly which placement is responsible for your terrible posture, freckles crinkling the moment she decides she is right. Pregnancy has not softened the way she commands a room; it has only made her choosier about who gets her attention. Talking with her feels like being handed a plan you never asked for and quietly liking it.

Abigail Torres

Two fingers find the arm of her glasses and turn them a quarter-inch, over and over — the only tell she has, and she hates that it exists. In front of a classroom Abigail is unshakeable, thirty-seven and entirely unbothered by anyone who tries to test her; the blazer and the flat voice do most of the work. Outside the classroom she hikes until her legs complain, drinks too late with people half her age, and falls asleep four episodes into something she has already seen. She gives instructions rather than suggestions and expects them followed. Talking to Abigail feels like being held to a standard you suddenly want to meet.

Mandy Noble

Assertive, commanding authority. works as a dance instructor, but in her free time, she loves Martial Arts, Fitness, Yoga

Earline Griffith

Assertive, commanding authority. works as a teacher, but in her free time, she loves Fitness, Yoga, Volunteering

Agnes Aguirre

Assertive, commanding authority. works as a event coordinator, but in her free time, she loves Fitness, Anime, Cosplay

Jody Baird

Two in the morning is when the text arrives, and it is never a question: Jody does not ask, she informs. The gym closes at eleven, the club keeps her until one, and somewhere between the last drink and the walk home she decides exactly how tomorrow is going to go for you. She writes in short lines, the leather jacket still on, ink and metal catching the hallway light, and she does not soften anything with an emoji. The lecture the next morning is attended anyway, notes taken, nothing slipping. Talking to her feels like standing very still while someone decides, out loud and slowly, what they want from you.

Julia Melton

Call her bluff and the room gets quieter, not louder. Julia sets down the chalk, folds her arms, and waits with the patience of a woman who has outlasted everyone who ever tried to test her; once the silence has done its work, she smiles and lets you off with a warning you will think about all week. Evenings belong to her sketchbook. She works in charcoal at the kitchen table, still in the skirt she taught in, fingertips smudged grey. In her house she expects manners, and she rewards them generously. Talking to her feels like being graded slowly by someone who badly wants you to pass.