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[flaredo]

"Heeey, you've reached Yang! Well, actually, you didn't reach far enough, 'cause I'm not here right now! But don't yang up! Just leave a message on this baby, and I'll get back to you soon enough, okay?"

[ Please specify VOICEMAIL, TEXT or CALL. ]

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[ Call! ]

[kaba]

Hey, Yang! Just wanted to check up on how you guys were doing so far. Y'know, with the whole thing going on in CERES.

I'm kinda worried that Ruby might go out and doing something… [ whispering ] …dangerous.

[ He is so in overprotective dad mode right now. ]

[flaredo]

Don't worry about that! [ Brightly. ] If she does, Weiss and I will be there right along with her!

[kaba]

I know she's got a weapon but… [ SHE'S A BABY… ]

[flaredo]

She's also our team leader. I wouldn't worry.

[kaba]

That good, huh? [ BUT ]

[flaredo]

And she's got me to look after her.

[ NO BUTS. ]

[kaba]

And I feel a lot better about it, but… [ there he goes again ]

…Shouldn't she be in school?

[ THERE. HE SAID IT. ]

[flaredo]

... Hmmmm. Well, our school's a little different from the school here.

[ And so of course Yang doesn't go, either. ]

[kaba]

[ Yes, but you're practically a grownup while Ruby…drinks…milk… ]

Yeah, I guess, but…I dunno. There were dead bodies in there, y'know? [ In Recreare's feed, that is. ]

I don't like the idea of you guys seeing more of that.

[flaredo]

Koujakuuuuu. You're starting to sound like my dad.

[kaba]

[ …Is this another old man joke he's twenty-seven for the love of Buddha— ]

Least your dad sounds like a good guy.

[flaredo]

He is! He just tends to fuss, but then he's okay sending our dog in the mail, so...

[ SHRUG. ]

[kaba]

[ Shockingly, that last part doesn't weird him out so much. People totally get their robot dogs from the mail all the time, after all… ]

Yang Xiao Long, are ya calling me fussy? [ This is his best dad voice now. Be afraid. ]

[flaredo]

Sure am!

[ BRIGHTLY. ]

[kaba]

Hey. [ Laughing. ] Now you're just embarrassing me. Ruby isn't hearing this, is she?

[ Don't harsh up the Reds' funky flow, man… ]

[flaredo]

Lucky for you, it's just me and Zwei in the room right now. Buuuut I might consider warning her that you're a fusser.

[kaba]

I think she found that out already.

[ Not that that was hard. ]