that works perfectly then! for him too i think it was likely mostly physical for him as well since he's just so cranky and it would have been a welcome relief especially with the war going on around them. we could potentially say that it ended relatively amicably - he was getting out of the military as quickly as possible and they probably both knew it wasn't something that was going to last anyway? but maybe he still hit her up every now and then if she was ever in babylon