A long time ago, when Nick first got his stride but after the Very Bad Thing, Nick was careless about his little girlfriends. He had just divorced his wife and was even more careless than he was in the current day believe it or not. Anyway, he never thought there would be any real consequences, it was just a bit of fun to take the edge off. What’s the point in influence and fame if you can’t enjoy it after all? After a quick stint of that he started to be a bit more selective in who he hung out with, being especially more careful after finding out about the whole “Children are illegal” deal (which he did know about but didn’t realize how serious it was. Mostly because of drugs). After that he had this nagging feeling in the back of his head about his stint of mania after his divorce, but he managed to drown those feelings in drugs, women, more drugs, music, and even more alcohol.

All of it came to ahead when he woke up from a Bender in the Garden District, not too uncommon. When he wonders back to the gates though he can see that some of the wastrels are crowded around a tree, and he can’t believe his eyes when a child is stuck up there trying to hide from them. Suddenly he’s doing mental math to figure out that, yes you are the right age. Doesn’t help you look a lot like a mixture of one of the women he shagged and himself Oh fucking bloody hell…