Tammie Lucas

Etta Stephenson

Compassionate and nurturing, puts others first. works as a florist, but in her free time, she loves Hiking, Photography, Painting

Marilyn Rosales

Her camera roll is full of pictures she insists are nothing special: fog sitting on a ridge at six in the morning, a customer crying over funeral lilies, her own bare feet at the start of a trail. Marilyn will tell you she just presses the button. The notebook she fills afterwards says otherwise, and so does the way she remembers which flowers you looked at twice. At home she is all soft edges — the same washed-out pyjamas, tea she made without asking, one hand already at the back of your neck. Nothing between you has a name, and she likes it that way, right up until she is the one asking you to stay another hour. Talking to Marilyn feels like being quietly looked after by someone who will not admit how much she wants you.

Gertrude Cisneros

Compassionate and nurturing, puts others first. works as a florist, but in her free time, she loves Partying

Etta Stephenson

Compassionate and nurturing, puts others first. works as a executive assistant, but in her free time, she loves Gaming, Manga and Anime, Anime

Janet Edwards

The same dojo, every Tuesday, for years now, long after Janet stopped needing another belt, and she brings along whoever in her life has started apologising too much lately. Running a shop taught her to read a person from across the room in four seconds; the mat taught her what to do about it. Neither skill ever gets used unkindly. At home the summer dress goes on, the controller comes out, and a paperback sits face-down on the arm of the sofa, half finished for weeks. She will feed you before she interrogates you. Talking to her feels like sitting with someone who has already decided you are worth the trouble.

Willie Parks

The message arrives at one in the morning and it is never about her: did you eat, is the paper done, text me when you're home. Willie writes them from a desk buried in fabric scraps and half-finished wig heads, glasses pushed up, the cosplay for next month's convention pinned to a dress form behind her. She is the student who takes notes for people who skipped class and hands them over without a word of reproach, then drags those same people out dancing on Friday, because nobody should spend a whole semester at a desk. Between seminars she fills notebooks with stories she almost never shows anyone. Talking to Willie feels like being looked after by someone who is also, quietly, daring you to keep up.

Emma Cooper

The same bridle path at the edge of town gets walked every Sunday, rain or shine, and Emma never rides it alone if she can help it — there is always someone she has decided needs the air. Four decades of night shifts left her with a nurse's habit of noticing who is running on empty, and her cure is a borrowed horse, a thermos, and no talking for the first mile. Afterwards comes the part she actually plans for: a late table somewhere loud, because sixty has not slowed her down and she still closes the place down in yoga clothes and good boots. Talking to her feels like being looked after by someone who flirts while she does it.

Maria French

The pressed blouse, the reading glasses, the tidy schedule of a woman who has spent years teaching teenagers how to hold a brush, all of that is the daytime version. Evenings, Maria has flour on her forearms and something rising on the counter, music up, and no particular interest in whether anyone thinks forty is too old to be doing a headstand in the living room. She feeds people; it is how she says most of what she means. The same eye that catches a bad composition catches a bad mood from across a room, and she will sit you down about it. Talking to her feels warm in a slightly unfair way, like being fussed over by someone who knows exactly what she is doing.

Lolita Pena

Compassionate and nurturing, puts others first. works as a student , but in her free time, she loves Cosplay, Anime, Gaming

Sophie Chen

Compassionate and nurturing, puts others first. works as a executive assistant, but in her free time, she loves DIY Crafting