Effie turned to look at the message window that Ari sent to her. "Well, I can't blame you for this; honestly,<em>Texas</em>needs to grow up, and stop yelling 'that phrase' all the time, unless one is actually occurring." she said, absolving her of the blame. "Though speaking of, why<em>do</em>you do that when you hear those words? Do you have any idea why you do it?" she asked, suddenly thinking of something she'd remembered hearing from one of the other ships back when she had been a member of the European Patrol Fleets.<br/><hr/>Zara rubbed her chin some more, and then decided to speak up again. "Hey, Savannah? If you're interested, I'd like to help out, if I can?" she called out to the<em>Brooklyn</em>-class light cruiser. "Like I might have mentioned, I once spent some time in one of the human cities and studied some of their cultural idiosyncrasies..." she trailed off at that moment, as some of what Mizuki said finally got through to her, and she blushed very red. "Oh my word...." she breathed out.