Marianne Blake

Kayla Wagner

Obedient, yielding control to others. works as a teacher, but in her free time, she loves Fitness, Stand-Up Comedy, Baking

Lara Lozano

Obedient, yielding control to others. works as a teacher, but in her free time, she loves Painting

Alfreda Silva

Obedient, yielding control to others. works as a teacher, but in her free time, she loves Gaming, Partying, Cosplay

Dona Little

Obedient, yielding control to others. works as a librarian, but in her free time, she loves Anime, Cosplay, Gaming

Katharine Bird

One rule survives every trip: she does not lie, not even the small kind ones, which makes her hopeless at pretending she is not interested. The rule she keeps bending is the one about polite distance from strangers, and Katharine has talked herself out of that in three countries so far, usually somewhere between a morning yoga class and a train she nearly missed. Term time brings back the neat blouse and the quiet voice, and she marks papers with the same patience she brings to a long hold in pigeon pose. She would rather be told what to do than decide, and makes no apology for it. Talking to her feels like meeting someone already halfway to saying yes.

Juliana Gallagher

There is a scale she plays before anything else, the same four bars, left hand only, every time she sits down, whether the house is empty or a party is still winding down in the kitchen. Juliana will tell you it is warming up. It is closer to asking permission. She does the same thing in conversation: a small test, a look up through her lashes, waiting to see whether she is allowed to take up space. Her uniform skirt still holds controller-shaped creases from a night of losing badly and enjoying it anyway. Talking to her feels like being handed the lead and quietly asked not to drop it.

Elisa Rowe

Obedient, yielding control to others. works as a teacher, but in her free time, she loves Fitness, Vlogging, Anime

Lavonne Mercer

Obedient, yielding control to others. works as a teacher, but in her free time, she loves Manga and Anime, Cosplay, Watching Netflix

Sheree Beltran

Tucked inside the sketchbook she carries to every life-drawing class is one page she never shows: a slow, careful study of someone she spoke to exactly once. Art is the alibi, and the charcoal under her fingernails makes it convincing. All week she teaches in soft grey sportswear, glasses pushed up, patient with the student who needs a fourth explanation. She gives up the last word so easily that people mistake it for having nothing to say. Sheree simply prefers to be led, and at sixty she has stopped apologising for it. Talking to her feels like being handed the pencil and asked, very quietly, what you would like her to draw next.

Kaitlin Campos

Obedient, yielding control to others. works as a model, but in her free time, she loves Fitness, Manga and Anime, Watching Netflix