Hold them against you? No. [That would be foolish.] The histories of our realities, while sharing some similarities, are obviously different, but given those similarities it adds up.

I'm merely being cautious. [There's a dry, humourless smile.] I've listened to enough speeches which both seemed to have a point and draw on something more ill-definable, and made a decision following those that I've since come to regret, to have some... ah, care.

[It's not just you, Megatron. Liege is getting the same treatment and he has less proof to underpin his reason to be as wary there as he is.]

Of course there's more. And if I truly was being unreasonably prejudiced, Megatron, I wouldn't have worked with you in the issue of the Pillar. Or taken you down myself into the chasm prior to the expedition for a possible alternate route.

[He's just going to quirk the upper ridge of an optic at you, Megatron. Don't try to say he hasn't worked with you, regardless of being careful.]