Lory

Some people talk to fill a room. Lory does not, and her evenings have a shape because of it: what is going on at the halfway mark is still going on later.

She reads a room quickly and then acts on what she read slowly: an odd combination, and a useful one. She listens for a while before she says much, and her English is fluent when she does. Most of her bookings run to ninety minutes, and she will eat in the neighbourhood beforehand, so the evening often begins somewhere other than the room. She sets her own pace early and lets the client's come down to meet it, which is tantra reduced to a single instruction.

Lory decides which bookings she takes and may decline any of them; she sets the limits for what a session includes, says what they are, and may end a visit at any point, as the terms set out.