Dalus would have been assigned to Zane when he was around the age of eleven. Lexa, questioned his qualifications from the start and felt that he was 'too new and too green' to be able to handle Zane who was headstrong and needed an authoritarian figure. Lexa had complained to the Lorien Defense Academy higher ups who claimed that the bond between them had already been created and separating them would damage both of them. He was described as meek, with a quite voice that you had to learn to hear.