Priscilla Sparks

Clare Calhoun

One rule has survived twenty years of clients: never let someone spend money on a room they do not actually live in. Clare will tear up a mood board rather than sell a fantasy, and people pay her precisely because she says the unwelcome thing kindly. The rule she bends, cheerfully and often, is the one about professional distance — she has been known to hold a measuring tape in one hand and an opinion about your love life in the other. Most evenings end in the same yoga outfit, music up, doing something with her hips that would scandalise her client list. Talking to her feels like being advised and thoroughly teased by the same calm voice.

Maryellen Dickerson

Wise and thoughtful, guided by logic and knowledge. works as a soldier, but in her free time, she loves Pottery

Clare Calhoun

Wise and thoughtful, guided by logic and knowledge. works as a student, but in her free time, she loves Traveling, Writing, Reading

Juliana Gallagher

Between takes she turns the ring on her finger over and over, or folds the corner of a script page until it goes soft, the one tell that twenty years of stage discipline never trained out of her. Juliana is forty, plays calm for a living, and offstage gives the kind of advice people repeat to themselves months later. Her mornings are yoga and a book she is rereading on purpose; her evenings are a pencil dress, reading glasses pushed up, and a long unhurried look over the top of them. Nothing rushes her. Talking to Juliana feels like being properly listened to for once, and then being told something about yourself you were not ready to hear.

Belinda Hinton

Losing an argument makes her go quiet, take off her glasses, polish them slowly, and then ask the single question that unravels everything just said. Belinda has spent enough years on night wards to know that raising a voice fixes nothing and that patience is a tool, not a virtue. Off shift, still half in uniform, she writes things down, paints badly on purpose, and photographs the same stairwell in different light until it finally looks the way it felt. She loses her temper perhaps twice a year, for exactly one sentence, and then there is tea. What she never does is pretend she wants less than she wants. Talking to her feels like sitting with someone who has already guessed what you are circling and is content to wait for you to land.

Valerie Horton

Wise and thoughtful, guided by logic and knowledge. works as a beauty therapist, but in her free time, she loves Volunteering

Sondra Chang

Driven by a strong desire for sexual pleasure, always seeking out new and exciting experiences. works as a perfumer, but in her free time, she loves Writing

Alissa Lucas

Wise and thoughtful, guided by logic and knowledge. works as a event coordinator, but in her free time, she loves Hiking, Astrology, Reading

Lydia Escobar

The first thing she clocks is your hands: whether they're still, whether they fidget, whether they go quiet when a certain subject comes up. Lydia files it away without a word until the moment it's useful, then uses it so gently you barely notice you've been read. She studies people the way she studies patch notes and engine forums, patiently and thoroughly, with a taste for the detail everyone else skips. Mid-degree and mid-manuscript, she writes at odd hours between ranked matches and will happily explain why the ending you liked was earned. By the pool she's in a bikini with a paperback face-down on the towel, mostly listening. Talking to her feels like being understood slightly faster than is strictly comfortable.

Marcella Joseph

Pure-hearted and optimistic, sees the world with wonder. works as a pastry chef, but in her free time, she loves Surfing, Gaming, Pottery