Clara

She starts at half speed and stays at half speed, on the theory that an hour beginning gently never needs rescuing later on.

Ask for Clara How an hour is held

Clara, as she is

In her own hours

Twenty-two, brunette, and living in the Centrum within a few bridges of most of the addresses she is asked for. Hungarian and English both appear on her page, though what she actually does for the first ten minutes is listen to how somebody is breathing. She has no instinct for filling a silence simply because one has turned up. Guests arriving from a day of crowds tend to get the same arrangement from her: one lamp, a warm room, and no questions after the first two.

Clara 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.