Clara

02 Who arrives

Clara, and how she works.

The streets behind the market are hers: the apartments up three flights, the kitchen you have to walk through to reach anything. Her touch with couples is light, comic when that helps and silent when it does not, and the heavier work goes to whoever she is paired with. Being the younger of two therapists does not appear to trouble her in the slightest, and at twenty-two she is the younger of two more often than not. A quarter of an hour in the room is roughly how long she needs to work out what sort of evening the pair of you are after.

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.

She works outcall only, your hotel room, your serviced apartment, your own flat. Forty to sixty minutes across the centre once the booking is settled, at any hour. Schiphol airport hotels are by arrangement.