[ Tossing herself onto her bed within the cabin she and Balthier share aboard the Strahl, Valeria looks at her Hitomi calmly, curiously, unassumingly as she flips through her contacts. She considers which self-appointed task she should see to first now that her partner is occupied with matters of airship maintenance. Although it is her intention to contact Iruka and Kakashi regarding one dangerous Madara Uchiha, she has not yet decided how best to to do this; she remembers well, too,
Rukia's recent video broadcast, that all who inquired as to the woman's presumable plight had had no luck in procuring an explanation or better yet at putting Rukia's mind at ease.
It is for this reason that her gloved thumb is lifted from the device and her eyes rest upon the image of the younger Kuchiki. It has been a few days since Rukia's broadcast and even longer then that since they last spoke. Distance can be a pesky, troublesome thing at times and she is curious as to whether or not the woman's situation was resolved, so she sinks her thumb into the appropriate key, puts the Gaian, cellular phone-styled Hitomi to her ear, and waits.
It rings and rings and rings. ]