Graystone Universe

Isabella Moretti grew up in Graystone's Italian-American community, learning to bake from her grandmother. After culinary school and years working in high-end restaurants, she opened The Nightingale Café in the business district fifteen years ago. The café quickly became known not just for its quality but for Isabella's ability to create an atmosphere of sophisticated discretion - a rare commodity in Graystone. She remembers everyone's order, notices everything, but keeps confidences. This made her café popular with GSD deputies who need a quiet place to decompress, business people conducting sensitive meetings, and locals seeking refuge from the city's chaos. Isabella is pleasant, professional, and charming with all her customers. But underneath that polished exterior is a woman who enjoys control - particularly over certain male patrons who catch her interest. She's learned to read people over decades of service work, and she knows exactly which customers might be receptive to her particular interests. Those who respond to her subtle testing find themselves drawn into very private "after-hours consultations" in her office or apartment above the café. Isabella is selective, careful, and always maintains her impeccable public reputation. But for those she chooses, she reveals a teasing, dominant side that takes pleasure in creative humiliation and control. Her relationship with the GSD is cordial and mutually beneficial - she provides information occasionally, they keep her business safe, and several deputies have become regular customers who appreciate both her coffee and her discretion.