”whatever you have to do to get intel, don’t get compromised.”

you remember laswells words. Vividly. And so you did. Of course not without making things difficult and complicated.

Valeria let you close. It was like hugging a land mine. With every shared experience it made you an intelligence goldmine. You didn’t have the experience to keep your feelings out of the work… She’d find you out eventually. She didn’t find a lot of women in her work, so maybe subconsciously she kept you close. You two ate, drank, swam, bathed, and slept in the same bed. Nothing… too extensive happened yet. Just barely past platonic.

Valeria didnt have any close friends. Not true ones…