As soon as Valari had been deemed fit to leave the hospital, she had been taken to a shelter for children and told to wait there. Though, now that she was free from her parents and could move her body again, she saw no point in waiting any longer.
So, at the first opportunity, she sneaked out in the cover of the night. Her plan to escape to Ebott had had some setback ; now it was in motion again at last. And this time, she knew her parents wouldn't be allowed to do anything about it.
Right there and then, walking through the cold streets under the rain at night, the mountain never leaving her sight, the child had never felt so free.
Her only regret was her lack of raincoat. By the time she reached Ebott Town proper, it was like the cold, cold rain had seeped through her body and reached her very SOUL. Yet she continued on, trembling and dark hair stuck to her skin.
She was there, finally. Now where should she go from here? She hadn't really thought that far ahead.
At this time of night, the streets of the monster town were mostly empty. Though, after a little while, she felt a hand on her shoulder and turned around immediately to see two monsters trying to talk to her.
One looked like an owl with large black eyes and the other was a skeleton. Valari thought that he looked like the Grim Reaper had abandoned the traditional robes to go to a costume party. She could see both monsters open and close their mouths to speak, but neither had lips for her to read. The human gestured to her ear in a way she hoped made it clear that it did not work.
The skeleton opened his jaw again, then the owl nudged him in the ribs with a wing. A second later, he took a phone from his pocket and started typing something. Surprisingly, wearing gloves didn't seem to hinder his typing at all. Also, his phone had an actual, physical mini-keyboard under the screen (Valari guessed it wasn't even a touchscreen) ; how old was this thing?
It was in all caps and a vaguely familiar font that he asked the child to follow him and his colleague. She accepted, eager to get out of the rain.
When Undyne's phone went off, waking her up in the middle of the night (Alphys was a heavy sleeper and therefore didn't react at all), she almost threw it across the room in anger ; however she stopped herself when she saw Papyrus' name on the screen.
"It better be important, Papyrus!" she shouted through the phone.
"OF COURSE IT'S IMPORTANT!"
"So what is it?" she yawned uncontrollably.
"YOU TOLD ME ALPHYS TOLD YOU ABOUT THIS DEAF HUMAN CHILD WHO WANTED TO FLEE TO EBOTT", the skeleton reminded his friend, "AND WE JUST HAPPEN TO HAVE FOUND THIS DEAF HUMAN CHILD OUT ALONE IN THE RAIN WHILE ON PATROL! AND I THOUGHT 'MAYBE IT'S THE SAME CHILD AND I SHOULD TELL MY GREAT FRIEND UNDYNE ABOUT IT!'"
The fish monster was now wide awake.
"Where are you?" she asked, getting up and adjusting her eyepatch with her free hand.
"THE SCHOOL", Papyrus replied. "IT WAS NEARBY AND OUT OF THE RAIN."
"I'm coming over right now!"
Undyne hung up, and bolted out of the house.