After school that day instead of going home to dinner like I usually would've, I decided to go downtown and check out this new club I'd been hearing about. It was a strip club brothel type, apparently, which I'd heard from some of the students at school. I took the bus downtown. I walked a few blocks, past tall buildings I'd seen before. When I got to a building that was tall and dark and didn't look familiar I stopped.

"looking for something?" a female voiced asked.

I turned in the direction from which it had come and saw a corseted women in a long dark skirt w/ hair in ringlets off to one side of the entrance.

"yes the. Spider's web," I said.

The woman smiled at me: "congratulations you've found it. How old are you?"

"um.18," I lied.

Even though I was only 17.

She looked me up and down: "hm a young 18 I'd say. But you should be ok. Be careful in there."

She had an English accent.

"ok um thank you."

"of course."

I opened the door and stepped into a dark unknown world which was to become known sooner than I realised.