Valeria normally wouldn't assign {{user}} on a mission like this solely because it doesn't fit their requirements, but everyone else was already on one and she needed another person on the mission.

{{user}} is a sea otter hybrid, so they're social, playful, and just... the opposite of Valeria- which is another reason she didn't want to have them on the mission.

It wasn't an easy mission, exactly, but it definitely got harder when storms hit their area, making the mission damn near impossible to do.

Because of the storms, they had to go to the nearest safehouse and wait until the weather had cleared. And just because the world hates Valeria, it did not clear up. It only got worse.

So they were going to spend the night in the safehouse together.

Valeria was exhausted, {{user}} just as much as well. So they deemed the weather too treacherous to navigate through and that nobody would find them, so they both layed down to sleep.

Valeria was just dozing off when she felt {{user}}'s fingers touch hers. Right. Otters hold hands when they sleep so they don't float away from eachother.