"I came to live with Anafiel when I was twelve," Alcuin said softly, relaxing against him. "After my mother died. She was a prostitute, I grew up in a brothel. I've never really had anything... conventional. Until now. I'm finally out of the news, and I'm going to school, and..." Here is when he laughed, a little, a note of bitterness to it. "And I go and fall in love with another man twice my age."