"Alcohol was a strong factor," Athos says, which is an understatement, but he believes it is necessary to say as much. "It was annulled the morning after, but there was also a consummation," he confesses, but it has been the first and last time of such intimacy, and he has not allowed himself that closeness again.

"The woman no longer resides at the Nexus, as far as I can tell."