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</div><b>Name:</b>Valerie 'Val' Toussaint<br/><b>Age:</b>Twenty-two<br/><b>Sexuality:</b>Heterosexual<br/><b>Hometown:</b>Born in France, current residence is in London.<br/><b>Date/Time:</b>Tuesday, July 6th, 2021 | Evening<br/><b>Location:</b>Villa Backyard<br/><b>Wearing:</b>Same dress from the picture.<br/><b>Coupled With:</b>Danny<br/><b>Tagging:</b>Danny (<a class="username" data-user-id="2019" data-username="Mellifluous" data-xf-init="member-tooltip" href="https://blackdahliaroleplaying.com/members/2019/">Mellifluous</a>) | Mentions almost everyone.<br/><br/><hr class="bbc-hr bbc-hr--1"/><br/>Val had pretty much expected things to go fairly smoothly once Danny's turn was over during the recoupling ceremony. He'd picked her and she was happy with the way it was going. She wasn't sure why she thought it would just end there. Carina was the last one left, not being selected during the ceremony, which meant she had to leave the island. This left Val with a small pit in her stomach since she recalled earlier encounters with the woman and she hadn't seemed to be in a very good place regarding it all.<br/><br/>if that wasn't enough, after that, Val realised that they'd be saying goodbye to two more people, and the four candidates were all laid out in front of her. She found it hard to make a decision on who to send home when she'd hardly spent more than a day on the island. She would have loved to get to know them all more before having to make this decision, but there was no time for that now.<br/><br/>Going with her gut, and from what she'd observed during her time there, Val sent in her choices to Laura and sat back, unable to keep herself from wondering if she could end up being one of the people standing up there during the next recoupling ceremony. Thinking about it wasn't going to help anyone though, so she tried to push the thought aside as Laura announced who would be leaving.<br/><br/>Being safe for the time being was nice, but Val quickly realised that saying goodbye to people<i>wasn't</i>so nice. That was how this was meant to be, though, and she needed to keep reminding herself of that.<br/><br/>Dom and Marcus were ultimately the ones chosen to go, and Val listened as the latter said his goodbyes first. He spoke of Danny in between, which was clear in the way he looked at him as he spoke, and Val could only furrow her brows a bit since she didn't quite grasp all of what he was saying. It was one of the few moments she'd wished she caught up with what had happened on the island before she arrived.<br/><br/>The tone of the evening had been heavier than she'd anticipated and that pattern only seemed to continue when Danny turned to her, apologised, and got up to leave close to the end of Marcus' speech. Val frowned, torn between wanting to follow him and staying put. She wanted to check on him, but she also wanted to stick around for the goodbyes, even if she didn't get a chance to get to know Marcus or Dom that well. She figured that giving Danny a bit of space for the time being might be a good idea, so after wishing Marcus farewell and hugging Dom goodbye before she left with Hans, Val went off to look for Danny.<br/><br/>Quite a few of the islanders were heading to the kitchen to grab a bite to eat or something to drink after a long day, and as appealing as that seemed, Val first wanted to make sure Danny was alright. She wasn't sure where he'd gone off to, but the first place she thought of to look was by the pool, and she was fortunately right with her guess.<br/><br/>He was seated on one of the beanbags, and as Val came up behind him, she decided against grabbing one of the other ones close by. Instead, she got closer and placed a hand on his shoulder gently, just to let him know she was there, before she crouched down and ultimately sat cross-legged on the grass beside him. For a few moments, she sat in silence. Eventually though, she turned and tilted her head back to look up at him. "You okay?"