Ivy

Ukrainian, Russian or English, and she gets quieter in all of them when she is tired, which she admits without any embarrassment at all. Her hour opens carefully: the room warmed first, the gel warmed after, a long settling stretch of contact before any real work starts, and then it builds without announcing that it is. While she works she is not talkative and will not fill a silence for its own sake, though across a table beforehand she is very good company. Most of her bookings are within a few streets of her own door, and the further ones she reaches inside the hour.

Ivy 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.