Humphrey didn’t follow Crushed Velvet on their tour. He turned up for a few of the larger events, but he spent most of the time at his house on Pelops where he would whine to anyone who would listen about how Harley had too much control over the band and that the songwriter that Humphrey hired was so mediocre compared to Harley. One who suffered through Humphrey’s complaining was the nine year old son of his next door neighbor on Pelops. The boy, Demeter Jones, was a bit unusual in that he didn’t try to make any excuse to try to get out of the conversation, but instead bet Humphrey a million Drax that he could make everyone in the Coalition into brilliant songwriters. Then Demeter went to his room and created the Ear Worm Virus.