MATURE. Adults only. Every named and speaking character is an adult, with an age on the page: Bethan Pryce 28, Ivor Lindqvist 44, Marie Pryce 55, Eilish Pryce 31, Callum Pryce 24, Adaeze Obi 47, Murdo Baird 58, Doctor Sutherland 62, Niall Crozier 51, Hana Lindqvist 39, and Rae Lindqvist 23, who appears once in no sexual role. The youngest is 23 and no minor exists in the book in any role, memory, or plan. No character is related to any other character they are intimate with, no character is anybody's guardian or ward, and no scene of intimacy happens in a bedroom. Themes: a house at the end of a road that stops four miles from Wooler, on a hydrotherapy pool held at thirty-four degrees at four hundred and ten pounds a month, with a heat exchanger that is failing at one thousand eight hundred and fifty pounds; a personal injury trust paying four thousand six hundred pounds a month out of a settlement of one million two hundred and forty thousand pounds; a written arrangement of eleven clauses between an employer and the woman he pays three thousand two hundred pounds a month; the district nurse's seventy-eight pounds a visit every second Thursday, which is two thousand and twenty-eight pounds a year; an indemnity policy of one thousand three hundred and forty pounds a year with clause seven (b), which excludes any injury during a transfer performed by a person who is not named on the schedule, and six hundred and twenty pounds a year to put a name on it; a mother's shop three thousand one hundred pounds a month against a mortgage of eighty-six thousand four hundred pounds at six hundred and twelve pounds a month, and one thousand two hundred and twenty-four pounds behind by the twelfth of January; an incomplete spinal injury at the first lumbar vertebra and a man who runs his own care; a dead-end road, a generator, a plough at sixty pounds a time, and a log book with one thousand four hundred and twelve entries. Sexual content: Bethan Pryce 28 and Ivor Lindqvist 44 are both adults, are not married to each other, and are not related in any degree. 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 is said once in the last written scene and honoured immediately with no question asked and no reason given. The scenes are written in full and specific to these two people, to a study and a pool house, and to the terms of the arrangement. They are not rewards and they unlock no choice and no ending. No injury is depicted, no weapon appears, and no method of anything is described. No slur is written out. Fictional house, road, shop, trust, broker, underwriter and people. All music is instrumental, vocal playback is disabled, and lyrics are empty.