[She sets her jaw, unsure of how to really deal with the fact he's shown up so suddenly again. It isn't as if she can blame him for being at the mercy of a fragment's whim...she, of all people, knows what it's like.]

You've been missed.

[The minute she says so, in fact, the gear is all but knocked out of her hands as a pair of eevees, who hadn't been quite sure if that was daddy's voice or not but were PRETTY sure now, scaled her body and down her arms to stuff their faces into the screen in an excited chitter of noise]