De Pijp is where her evenings begin, a short ride from the hotels of the old centre. Blair is twenty-seven, brunette, and speaks Romanian and English in the same plain, unhurried tone. Guests tend to ask her for nuru or for body to body, and a visitor who tried one of them on an earlier trip can simply name the other in his next message. She would rather hear a length and a start time than a long description, and a question at the door gets an answer in one sentence. Living in De Pijp puts her near the RAI and the office towers of Zuidas, so a guest whose return trip is built around a trade fair or a week of meetings in the south of the city is on her side of town. Her arrival is quoted at forty to sixty minutes, as for every booking on the roster. Nuru needs a shower that rinses well and some space beside the bed, which is worth stating in the first line of the request.

Blair 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.