Luna, companion in Bank and Monument

About Luna

Luna likes height, which is a useful preference in this particular square mile. She is 171 cm and curvy, her hair long, dark auburn red, catching whatever light the room has, her brown eyes staying amused. She dresses with more colour than the City is used to, a deep green dress, a coat in camel, and it works because she refuses to apologise for a single part of it. In her early twenties, she has the confidence of a woman to whom walking into a room alone has never once occurred as a problem.

Her English is quick and openly affectionate, and she is the least guarded person on this register. She will tell you about her week within ten minutes and ask about yours with real interest. She likes weather, storms in particular, and she reads the sky before she reads the forecast. She is playful without being silly, and she has a good instinct for when a guest feels like talking and when he would rather look out of a window in silence.

Her EC3 evening starts above the street. Her favourite opening is the Sky Garden on top of 20 Fenchurch Street, taken at the last of the daylight, because the whole City lays itself out under you and the towers start switching their lights on while you watch. After that she brings the evening back down to ground level, a table near Monument or a walk east to the bridge. She lives in Mayfair and the Central line puts her at Bank in a quarter of an hour.

The towers, the hotels and the walks under them are on the Bank and Monument page. Put the evening to booking, say which hour you want above the street, and the night is arranged around it.

Booking her

For the high room the desk needs your date a few days ahead, since the slots go early; tell Cordelia the hour you want the view and the night is put together working back from it. Luna reaches Bank from Mayfair in about fifteen minutes.

Her figures are the same figures every companion here works to, printed on the rates page, and the order a booking runs in is on the booking page.

An evening with Luna

The whole thing is built around one hour of light. She wants to be up there as the sun goes, so the booking starts earlier than a City evening usually does. She talks the entire way up in the lift and then stops completely at the top, which is the best compliment the view ever gets.

When the towers have finished lighting up she is ready to come down. Dinner somewhere near Monument with the after-work crowd thinning out, and she is very good with a guest who has had a long day of meetings and wants none of it repeated. Later, if it is dry, the walk east to the bridge, where the river does the last of the work and the City behind you is completely silent.