[VIDEO] Welcome Back?

[gunfondlingbattlestat]

[He's been here before. At least, that is what the Acolyte that greeted his arrival informed him, warning him that some of the "other refugees" might assume some level of familiarity with him. Past friendships forged, previous alliances made, beings encountered...]

[Perceptor remembers none of it.]

[His expression as he regards the Link is calm and inscrutable, though, despite how unsettling it is to find that his memories, if they were even his own memories, are... altered. Or missing. Or incomplete. Something.]

Do I have a laboratory here?

[Why beat around the bush, as Verity would have said. Well, she might have added a few... choice terms, perhaps, but, still. The sentiment remains.]

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[pasteurized]

I haven't kept track of who's been leaving and returning. Looks like there isn't much fanfare when someone drops off the map.

[No, Perceptor, the lucky ones are the ones who actually make it off this rock for good.]

If you did have a lab here, someone might have scavenged it during your vacation if you've been gone long enough.

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[gunfondlingbattlestat]

Hm.

[Hence the quotation marks.]

[Perceptor sighs. Of course it couldn't be that easy.]

Clearly you recognize me. Who are you?

[And what the heck is a human doing on Cybertron? Yes, yes, "Refugee". But, still. Humans.]

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I don't, actually. I hadn't realized you just got here. Or got back.

And really, to be frank, you all look the same to me.

[An exaggeration, but still. All of you share "giant robot" as your defining trait.]

White Knight. And yourself?

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[gunfondlingbattlestat]

[Lovely. one of those humans. At least this "White Knight" (and that nearly makes him choke, actually, as the name conjures up a mental image of Drift) is not shooting at him.]

[Yet.]

Perceptor.

[His optics narrow faintly.]

And yet, you replied.

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[pasteurized]

I did.

[He's been quiet for the last month, for his own reasons.]

My mistake.