.“My latest failure of a long line of failures, I thought this was it after several months and I actually had a relationship, someone who loved me f...or what I am, but she arranged for her ex-boyfriend to just happen to be here with his mates and tried to get me involved, I kicked her out of the holiday flat yesterday. That was a text basically dumping me and assassinating me with all my traits and bad habits.”“She?” blurted Bob, whilst not completely ignorant of modern sexuality he was still. “A few of us from the graduating class came here together, to look for work as adventurers ... what we didn’t expect was that adding a bunch of young Invokers to the mix here was basically going to crash the economy for magical talent.”That kind of makes sense.“Anyway, as it turns out, “ she continued, “A lot of people make some pretty strange assumptions about women war mages. I’ve had it about up to here with jokes like, ‘we can’t have you fireballing the camp once a month.’ I’m an Academy. Only one hand came up to grasp around the forearm but I quickly return it to my side knowing it was useless to fight. The man flicks my night stand lamp on while flashing a chilling smile.My eyes instantly start to shake while tears well up. How I just want this to be a nightmare, just another bad dream that would end in a few moments. The sight of his knife clearly in view, he was still cautious, wanting no chance of me resisting. One of the man’s hands grasp my face and his fingers wrap. She murmured something but did not wake.I decided a quick shower would do me some good. I stepped into the bathroom, took a piss and turned on the water.While the water was warming I looked at my naked body in the mirror. My hair was tousled, I needed a shave and there were dark circles under my eyes, but I was glad to see, as I am most mornings, that regular exercise had kept me fairly fit. Not bad for 40, I thought.I looked at my dick, which brought back memories of last night, when it had.