Cricket

02 Who arrives

Cricket, and how she works.

At twenty-two she is one of the younger therapists on the roster, which she uses well: there is no performance in how she works, only attention. In a four-hand hour she watches the other therapist as closely as she watches the two of you, matching pressure, pausing where they pause, finishing where they finish. Couples booking a pair for the first time expect something clinical and find instead that it runs as one continuous thing. Her flat is a few streets from the Noordermarkt, she works anywhere inside the ring, and a message comes back confirmed in about ten minutes.

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