Alcuin shrugged. "Roland was nice. Kept sending money... which made things a lot easier for us, my mother worked in a bakery. He had family money of some kind, he was just rich for no reason, you know? When I graduated from high school he offered to help send me to college, but my mom got sick so I stuck around... and then Roland died. And Anafiel came to see us, give us the news personally and also ah, he left something for us in his will. It was enough to set up my mom, whose cancer was gone by then, and Anafiel, well... he suggested I could back with him to LA. That he could get me modeling jobs. So I did."