I think it might have been a little longer than that but yeah, that’s not really relevant, it’s still very recent and yes, exactly, she was crushed. That’s what I meant in responding to the previous anon, there are degrees of how much one can react and respond when they’ve felt so hurt. She could have been worried and still sat back at her house, like when Lucia was kidnapped. As a rule, Val is not particularly gung-ho except when it comes to Juls. Not even during her own kidnapping, a few days ago, that left her traumatized.
Other characters, or other people, really, might have felt so angry or betrayed they could have been like, it’s not my business. What’d she say, how you don’t know people at all? What thoughts must have been swirling through her mind.. But she is going against her own usual instincts and inserting herself into this and being the most proactive person, frankly, more than Juls’s parents.