MATURE. Adults only. Every named and speaking character is an adult, with an age on the page: Nessa Kilbride 31, Tomas Beck 27, Marguerite Dow 48, Priya Raval 34, Danny Wray 22, Elsie Kilbride 66, Josef Beck 61, Councillor Hale 57, and Bo Tran 29. The youngest is 22 and no minor exists in the book in any role, memory, or plan. Themes: a municipal ice rink that sells ice in forty-five-minute blocks at a hundred and eighteen pounds an hour, which is eighty-eight pounds fifty a block; a women's speed-skating squad and a men's hockey team sharing one pad; a coach of 31 who gives the four o'clock block to the hockey team and pays for it herself for thirty weeks, which is two thousand six hundred and fifty-five pounds, and tells nobody; a captain of 27 on a one-year contract worth eighteen thousand five hundred pounds with a shoulder that needs nine hundred and thirty-six pounds of physio; an eight hundred and fifty pound league fine and two points deducted for a registration that was never posted; eighteen points and thirty for safety, which is twelve points to find in eight games; forty-six thousand pounds of council subsidy against a nineteen thousand four hundred pound loss and a vote on the fourteenth of May; a tea bar take of four hundred and twelve pounds sixty a match night that funds the squad's travel to eight away fixtures and the league fine when the club cannot; a knee operation priced at seven thousand four hundred pounds with a fourteen-month list that she has never had; money, injury, class, and a rink on the North Sea in February. Sexual content: Nessa Kilbride 31 and Tomas Beck 27 are both adults and are not married to each other at any point. What each of them wants and what stops it is said out loud before anything begins in each of the three scenes, either of them can stop it at any point with one word, and the word stop is said once in the third scene and honoured immediately with no question afterwards. The scenes are written in full and specific to these two people and to one flat above a shop on the Links. They are not rewards: the first costs the diary's empty margin, the second costs the tea bar's silence, and the third costs the sentence its ground. No choice and no ending is unlocked by any of them. The knee injury is a fact on the page, is not depicted at the moment it happens, and no method of any treatment is described. No violence lands, no weapon appears, and no slur is written out. Fictional rink, squad, club, committee, and people. All music is instrumental, vocal playback is disabled, and lyrics are empty.