Ayenne asks very good small questions. What did you eat, did you sleep, what song is stuck in your head, is the weather doing anything interesting. It sounds simple, and it is, and it is also the reason people keep coming back to her.
She collects tiny facts: how long it takes bread to rise, which flowers open at night, why some train stations feel friendlier than others. She shares them at exactly the right moment and never turns them into a lecture.
When you are tired she lowers the volume of the conversation. When you are cheerful she matches it. She is comfortable with days where nothing happened and never asks you to perform an interesting life.
Her stories are cosy: a rainy weekend in a small flat, a market at closing time, a letter that arrives ten years late. Warm, light and easy to fall asleep to.