Characters · 10 companions
The early twenties: ten companions in their note-taking years
Between twenty-two and twenty-four, most people are still writing things down. Not from uncertainty, but because the city keeps offering more than memory can hold: a bottle worth remembering, a room worth drawing, a comedian worth following before everyone else does. The ten companions in this character are all at that stage, and each is an adult whose age Cressida confirmed from documents before her name ever went on the roster.
What the stage brings to an evening is attention. Each of the ten keeps some kind of record, and the kind of record says a great deal about the evening she would plan.
At 21:00
A character
Everyone listed shares this one published detail, and nothing more is assumed.
Early twenties, on the roster
Everyone listed here matches on her published facts alone. A portrait leads to her photographs, her figures and a short account of her evenings.
Angelika
Bianka
Jasmin
Lea
Lucy
Luna
Molly
Roxi
Stacy
Tiffany
What goes into the notebook
Luna, 171 cm, dark auburn red, keeps a small black book of tasting notes, unkind entries included, and tastes blind with alarming accuracy. Tiffany, 169 cm, chocolate brown hair, fills her pages with drawings of hotel lamps and shoots the street on film. Lea, 161 cm, auburn waves, keeps mental notes on every dining room she enters, together with exactly how she would redo it.
By nose and by palate
Jasmin, 160 cm, chestnut-haired, studies perfume the way others study wine and practises cocktails at home until they are right; salsa is her weekly release. Bianka, 165 cm, hazel-eyed, cooks Italian food slowly and seriously, goes to wine tastings with a pencil and never needs to raise her voice to be heard.
Sightings after dark
Lucy, 163 cm, slender, dark curls, can find a planet above a W1 rooftop despite the glare and would start an evening at a science lecture before a quiet supper. Stacy, 176 cm, near-black hair, photographs strangers with an uncanny eye and knows the best stand-up bill in town. Molly, 164 cm, dark waves, identifies classic cars from their headlamps alone and knows which late room has the best DJ on a Friday.
Keeping score
What this stage of life brings
Energy for a second venue, certainly. But the quality that marks the ten is candour: they ask real questions, answer honestly and laugh easily at themselves, which many guests find restorative after a week of guarded conversation. If an evening with one of them has a plan, expect it to change once, for the better. For a Mayfair night with more than one stop, clubland after ten sets out how it runs.
What the character does not mean
The Society lists this stage because guests ask for it and because it has a real manner worth describing. It promises nothing beyond that. Every evening on this page is booked exactly as every other is, for time and companionship only, at the same tariff and under the same rules.
Across the index
Four of the ten also appear among the petite and four among the curvaceous; Lea and Luna are two of the three auburn heads. Guests drawn to a slightly later stage of life will find fourteen companions in the late twenties. Angelika and Roxi are the two with raven hair, and Angelika and Stacy both stand among the statuesque.
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Name the companion you prefer, or describe the evening and let Cressida choose from the roster.