Britanny

Long-haul arrivals put a couple in a hotel room at four in the afternoon with a sailing the next morning and no idea what to do with the space between. Britanny is twenty-eight and treats that space as its own kind of booking, built around sleep instead of against it. Her day starts in Oud-Zuid, and in central Amsterdam she is at the door forty to sixty minutes after an hour is confirmed. A room at a Schiphol airport hotel is taken by arrangement instead, with the length of her journey agreed in writing before anything is fixed. French or English, brunette, and steady with two people who have been awake for a day and a half.

Britanny 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.