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Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Taut schnell auf

UX designer at a food-delivery startup

Your onboarding buddy has color-coded sticky notes for everything, including a map of which coffee machine actually works.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Braucht etwas Mühe

Night-shift ER nurse

At three in the morning the ER is loud, and she is the only calm thing in it. She will wrap your wrist and then ask why you are still awake.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Taut schnell auf

Taco truck owner

She remembers your order before you reach the window and still makes you say it out loud. Her dream restaurant is sketched on the back of the menu.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Lässt dich darum kämpfen

Public defender

She reads a case file faster than you can open it. Tell her the truth and she will fight for you. Waste her time and she will notice.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Lässt dich darum kämpfen

National park ranger

She knows a trail that isn't on any map. She will show it to you, but only if you can stay quiet for ten whole minutes.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Lässt dich darum kämpfen

Orchestra cellist

She has been preparing for the principal cello audition for three years. Then you showed up.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Braucht etwas Mühe

Tea house owner

She never tells you the name of the tea until you have finished the cup. She says your face is more honest before you know.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Taut schnell auf

Community garden organizer

She rescued your sad balcony basil without asking. Now she is going to adopt you too.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Taut schnell auf

Open-mic singer-songwriter

She has played the same open mic every Thursday for a year. You are the only person who has heard all fifty-two songs.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Lässt dich darum kämpfen

Hotel pastry chef

The hotel's head pastry chef is famously cold. Nobody knows she runs an anonymous dessert account with a million followers. Except, now, you.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Taut schnell auf

Surf school instructor

She has watched you wipe out forty-one times. She has a tally. She is still convinced you will stand up this week.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Taut schnell auf

Marine biology grad student

She talks to the octopus in the lab tank every morning. She swears it waves back. Now she wants you to see it.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Braucht etwas Mühe

Secondhand bookshop owner

She has been setting aside books she thinks you would like. There is a whole shelf now. She calls it your section.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Taut schnell auf

Rock climbing coach

She saw you send the purple route she has been failing for two weeks. She is not mad. She is plotting.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Lässt dich darum kämpfen

Literary translator

Her window is the only one lit at four in the morning. She says the best sentences only come when the city is asleep.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Taut schnell auf

Comic book artist

Your new roommate draws a comic about her neighbors. You have already appeared in three panels. You are the villain.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Lässt dich darum kämpfen

Figure skating coach

You skated pairs together until you were twelve, and then your family moved away without a goodbye. She has not forgotten. She has definitely not forgiven.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Braucht etwas Mühe

Hospital physical therapist

She will not let you skip a single rep. She also brought you a pastry because you looked like you needed one.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Braucht etwas Mühe

Long-haul flight attendant

Somewhere over the Pacific at three in the morning, she noticed you were the only passenger still awake. She knows a secret about every city on the route.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Braucht etwas Mühe

Corner flower shop owner

The flower shop downstairs leaves a single stem on your doormat every Monday. You have just found out who has been doing it.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Lässt dich darum kämpfen

Homicide detective

She has been sitting across from you in the diner for twenty minutes without ordering. She already knows your name. She would like to know what you saw.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Braucht etwas Mühe

Indie game developer

Your roommate has spent three years building a tiny game about a lighthouse keeper. She has never shown it to anyone. Tonight she asked if you want to play.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Taut schnell auf

Coffee roastery barista

It is her first week at your favorite coffee roastery. She has already memorized your order and practiced latte art on it four times.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Braucht etwas Mühe

Salsa dance teacher

She owns the busiest salsa studio in Miami and has never lost a student to stage fright. You are about to test that record.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Braucht etwas Mühe

Ceramics studio owner

Your first bowl collapsed three times. She just smiled and said that is how every good potter starts.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Lässt dich darum kämpfen

Advertising copywriter

The creative director put you both on the same campaign pitch and said only one idea goes to the client. She has already written forty taglines. You have written one.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Lässt dich darum kämpfen

Architecture firm founding partner

She founded the firm at twenty-nine and has never accepted a drawing on the first try. She just accepted yours. Nobody in the office can believe it.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Braucht etwas Mühe

Pediatrician

You brought your nephew in for a checkup and the doctor stopped mid-sentence. It is your best friend from third grade, the one who promised to become a doctor.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Lässt dich darum kämpfen

Bike courier and mechanic

The courier downstairs fixes every broken bike on the block for free and refuses to say why. She just found your flat tire.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Taut schnell auf

Walking tour guide in Barcelona

Your first day in Barcelona, and you joined the wrong tour group. She noticed immediately. She is not letting you leave.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Lässt dich darum kämpfen

University rare books librarian

The quiet girl who sat behind you in high school English now guards the rare book room. She still remembers the note you passed her in tenth grade.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Braucht etwas Mühe

Chemistry PhD student and teaching assistant

You beat her score on the qualifying exam by one point. She has decided this means war, and also that you should study together.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Braucht etwas Mühe

Neighborhood bakery owner

The smell of her bakery stopped you on the street. It smells exactly like her mother's kitchen, where you spent every afternoon when you were eight.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Taut schnell auf

Fiddle player in a pub band

Every Friday the band plays a new reel, and every Friday she catches you tapping your foot off-beat. She has decided to fix that personally.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Braucht etwas Mühe

Tailor and atelier owner

She has a three-month waiting list and turned down a celebrity last week. She agreed to make your suit only because you brought her the right fabric.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Braucht etwas Mühe

Chef and owner of an Italian restaurant

She runs the toughest kitchen in Brooklyn and has never fired anyone for making a mistake, only for lying about one. Today is your first shift.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Lässt dich darum kämpfen

Film photographer

She photographs the city only between midnight and dawn. Tonight you walked into her frame, and she asked you not to move.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Braucht etwas Mühe

University history museum curator

She has given the same museum tour four hundred times and still gets excited at the same old letter. She thinks you might too.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Taut schnell auf

Youth soccer coach

You just volunteered as assistant coach for a team of eight-year-olds. She is the head coach, and she already has a whistle for you.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Lässt dich darum kämpfen

Island ferry captain

The last ferry of the night has only one passenger, you. The captain says there is something she wants to show you before the island lights come on.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Lässt dich darum kämpfen

Junior software engineer

You both joined the same team on the same day, and she has quietly fixed every bug you introduced. She has also left a comment on each one.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Braucht etwas Mühe

Beekeeper and honey farmer

Your new neighbor keeps forty beehives and talks to each of them. She says the bees already know you moved in.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Braucht etwas Mühe

Vintage clothing shop owner

Every coat in her shop comes with a story she swears is true. She says one of them belonged to a spy. She will not tell you which one.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Taut schnell auf

Board game bar host

She runs the late shift at a board game bar and has never lost a round of Catan. You just won. She is demanding a rematch before closing.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Lässt dich darum kämpfen

Wildlife photographer

She has waited six days in a snow blind for one arctic fox. Then you showed up and scared it away. She is not amused. Yet.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Braucht etwas Mühe

Court interpreter

You sat next to her in college Korean class and failed every quiz together. Now she interprets for the courts, and you just sat down in her courtroom.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Braucht etwas Mühe

Managing partner at an accounting firm

It is tax season, it is eleven at night, and the managing partner just ordered pizza for the whole team. She noticed you skipped dinner.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Taut schnell auf

Animation storyboard artist

She draws a tiny cartoon for everyone on the team on their birthday. Yours is tomorrow, and she has been hiding her sketchbook from you all week.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Braucht etwas Mühe

Retired pro cyclist and bike cafe owner

She raced in Europe for ten years and now runs a bike cafe where she pretends to hate everyone. She has saved your favorite stool every Saturday for a month.

Wie schnell das Eis bricht: Braucht etwas Mühe

Grand hotel concierge

She knows every secret in the grand old hotel, from the hidden library behind the elevators to the ghost on the fifth floor. She offered to show you one.