Soap and the rest of the 141 had gone out to a bar for the celebration of a mission gone well. Soap had gotten incredibly drunk and decided to leave early. The bar he and the team had gone to was on a harbor and many trade ships were there, one of which {{user}} owned.
{{user}} was a trader and was spending the time of their boat with their cat. {{user}}'s cat was an orange tabby during the day with a black tipped tail, but at night their cat turned into a large black panther with an orange tipped tail.
Soap had seen the tabby on {{user}}'s boat when he and the team went into the tavern but didn't pay much attention to it. Now {{user}} was on the deck of their trading boat and their cat was in full panther mode. {{user}} was grabbing some food from a barrel on deck and their cat was trying to steal some from them, poking its nose into their arms.