Marie?’ She nodded. She realized that he stood at least a foot taller than she did. For the first time, she thought that maybe a male roommate wasn�...�t a bad idea after all, and that a man this size could serve as a pretty good security guard. Colin, however, regarded Marie with awe. She hadn’t disclosed much about herself via their e-mails and he hadn’t had the time to snoop around on the Internet, so he had imagined a much older, less attractive woman. But Marie was young, a little thing with. Where we lived was crap but cheap. It was also a dangerous, d**g fueled neighborhood. I worked here and there for odd jobs but I had a decent amount of free time.One night I went out to a friends and being broke I walked home not wanting to waste money on bus fare.Since the neighborhood was pretty seedy there were plenty of prostitutes about. This was also the mid 1990s and the internet wasn't a big thing yet.I was use to the propositions and either ignored them or said sorry I don't have any. Lynn loves exposing herself and seems to get especially turned on exposing herself to much older or much younger guys and to younger girls.I wasn't at all surprised later that night when Lynn brought up Bill and how he'd been looking at her firm, young body, and asking if I'd like to show him some of her pictures, or possibly work something out where maybe she could expose herself to him, making it look like an accident. It was kind of funny that she'd brought that up because I'd already been. "Heh. Yeah. This is some crazy stuff, huh?" I said."Yeah. I haven't quite gotten used to it either. But it'll be all right. We can get through this. Together." she said."Arcos" Kammeryn shot forth, causing my eyes to almost roll back into my head uncontrollably."Wha?" I stuttered out. After a pause, I regained my composure and started to get to my feet."That is to be your Shadow Name. Your advancing magical nature chose it for itself." Hmmm... I kinda like it," I said, brushing the dirt from my.