Celia

She arrives with rather more than she needs and makes nothing of any of it: towels, a sheet, the gel in a bottle kept warm since the taxi. Hotel rooms are most of her work, and she is good at the particular business of making a room booked that afternoon feel lived in for a few hours. Her Spanish is quick and affectionate, her English smaller and entirely sufficient for anything that needs saying. Mood she reads accurately, adjusting pressure before anyone has to ask, and an evening or a whole night is what she would rather be given.

Celia 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.