"Deal with them if and when you notice them, immediately," the doctor says. "That is done best by talking about the trauma and letting it go, rather than dwelling on it in silence, which only makes it worse. Find me if you can to talk about it, if you don't feel the people here that you 'shared yourself with' are up to dealing with it. I specialise in that sort of trauma, at home."

He is still calmly working on the torn bits around Sinric's anus.

"I suppose they are the same people who you have been experience your first orgasms with, as you mentioned?"