Claire

Claire has three working languages and uses them the way a transfer desk does, choosing whichever one the guest answers in quicker. She lives in De Pijp, and the journey from there to Schiphol is timed and agreed before she confirms anything. A layover guest tends to be dehydrated and stiff from the seat, and she starts slowly for exactly that reason. Nuru she keeps for rooms with a real bathroom and the time to use it. Blonde, twenty-six, practical, and willing to say out loud when a gap is too short for the booking someone wants.

Claire 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.