Celeste

Celeste is twenty-three and has dark hair. She lives in the Jordaan, among the narrow streets west of the centre. She speaks Portuguese and English. When she is not sure what a guest wants, she asks one simple question and waits. She never asks two questions at once. If you read English better than you speak it, type a word on your phone and show her the screen; she is fine with that. Her sessions are quiet, with music low or off, as you prefer. The streets where Celeste lives are close to the Anne Frank House and the Saturday market on the Noordermarkt. A Portuguese word typed on your phone works as well as an English one with her. She likes a booking of ninety minutes, because a quiet session needs a slow beginning. Her limits come first, in two or three short sentences, before the oil is opened.

Celeste 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.