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[prince_of_beasts]

A synthesized woman's voice picks up the call.

"Your call has been forwarded to an automatic voice message system. Two - Zero - Two - Nine - One - Eight - Two - One - Three - Two -- is not available now. At the tone, please record your message. When you've finished recording, you may hang up or press the # key for more options."

Dimitri hasn't figured out how to customize the thing yet.

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[prince_of_beasts]

This is ... hard. Dimitri doesn't have a frame for 'toxic masculinity'; it doesn't function in Fódlan quite the way it does in Rich's America, but the two aren't incomparable -- borne of similar roots, sprouted from similar seeds. Dimitri does know that something in his upbringing damaged him, something his mother tried to divert and only partially succeeded. He's watched it ruin people he loves. He knows it's warped him in ways he can't even see the full extent of. He's seeing echoes of it in Rich now.

He doesn't have any answers.

Talk to them.
They care for you. I'm sure they're worried about you, as well.
If you can sense they're hiding something from you, likely they can sense the same from you. And if you wish that they would be more direct with you, likely they wish the same.