video; timed to an early hour of the morning (such as it is on a blanket with no sun)

[surrenderedspark]

[ It is very early in the hour; had there been a dawn to record this moment of shadowy light over the hills, it would have been now. But the light he does have, gentle in it's undulations -- the distant Lambda tear is it;s likely source. For those who were on planets with a sun, certainly, it seems all the more alien for it. ]

I have spent my early time here exploring, both the world within and the world without. I am uncertain of this feeling these foreign landscapes engineer.

Homesickness.

For a planet that was never mine.

Curious.

[ He loved Earth, even in its strange organic variety and wonder. Cats feeding on birds, humans being so rich in their organic experience, everything in between. It was such a fascinating planet, so rich with diversity and wonder... It was no small thing to die to keep it intact, truly. ]

[ But what does that make Cybertron? The land where they laid his chassis, certainly, but his spark-- well. His spark longs for the place he truly began to understand, and that place was Earth. ]

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[raceme]

[Guess who wasn't sleeping because he was overworking? Your favorite nuisance secret agent.]

And what planet is that one? [He figures that Prowl means earth, but confirmation is nice.]

[surrenderedspark]

Earth.

It is odd, is it not? I sometimes wondered at what Yoketron had meant.

No longer, though.

[raceme]

A bit but odd is not bad. I traveled all around the different galaxies while Earth is not my favorite planet I admit it has some charm.

Oh? It's because he's gone or _because you finally understood?

[surrenderedspark]

I understand now, some of his-- harder to grasp teachings.

[raceme]

Must have been an interesting experience to have him as master.

[surrenderedspark]

It was. Without him, I would not be the bot that I am today.

[raceme]

I'm sorry about what happened.

[surrenderedspark]

I am not.

[ He is at peace. The loss of the Protoforms to the Decepticons pains him, but he knows -- he knows those lives will return to their proper place, someday. ]

Speaking of wise leaders-- Optimus Prime. Ours-- [ Since, you know, there's multiples of people trotting about. ] Have you heard from him? I haven't in -- weeks. He said he wanted to check in sometime, but I didn't hear anything from him after that.

[raceme]

We lost an entirely generation of Cybertronians, Prowl.

[Blurr disagree with your point of view on that, he can't help it.]

The first and last time we talked was a few weeks ago I HAVEN'T SEEN him since then.

[surrenderedspark]

[ Blurr's speed has always made him -- somewhat shortsighted. He's never seen the big picture. ]

No, we didn't.

[ It's in a tone that doesn't invite argument or discussion of the fact. Instead, he speaks of Optimus. ]

Hmm. I will have to look seeing if something has gone amiss. Thank you.

[raceme]

SAYS YOU but all those stoled protoforms say something very different.

[Your tone of voice means little to Blurr, Prowl. You are not his boss nor you are in touch with all the troubles Lockdown and those protoform missing caused the Council.]

You should try asking his FirstForged THEY MIGHT now.

[surrenderedspark]

Drop it.

[ Maybe that'll get the point across. He knows far bettern than most just what those missing protoforms did for the Council any everyone else. After all, the cyber-ninjas were guarding them. ]

I will.

[ And then, rather then lose his cool again, he cuts the connection. ]

[raceme]

Don't ^{give me} orders.

[Then don't go around saying you aren't sorry, that was a sore subject for more people than just you. However, Blurr can see there's little point on arguing.]

Ugh...

[So very mature, ninja bot.]

[not_halfbaked]

...I know the feeling.

[surrenderedspark]

Do you? I was unaware you were a space-faring organic.

[not_halfbaked]

[That actually makes her laugh.]

I was talking about the homesickness.

...So, space-faring, huh? What is that like? Sounds like sea-faring.... [And ah, homesickness again: she thinks of her mother's stories of pirates, the ones she'd tell her when she was a little girl, even before she was the Avatar....]

[surrenderedspark]

I see.

Well, it is like sea-faring, except in the space between worlds instead of the oceans between landmasses. The very basic principle is the same.

[video]

[glacius_passio]

Homesick for what planet? Aren't you one of the transforming robots from this planet?

[video]

[surrenderedspark]

I am; I am Prowl, an Autobot.

I was thinking of Earth.

[video]

[glacius_passio]

You're homesick for Earth?

[She's genuinely surprised because her version of Earth is a complete wasteland. She even forgets to offer her name in return.]

What do you miss about it?

[video]

[surrenderedspark]

It was a fantastic place, full of infinite variety and an ecological system so unlike Cybertron...

[ Since, you know, robotic lifeform versus organic... really different set ups. ]

I found it to be strangely beautiful, how everything seemed to be a piece of this world's great machine in and of itself.

[video]

[glacius_passio]

That's pretty different from what I'm used to. The only organic things left alive are humans. Everything else is robotic.

Must have been nice.

[video]

[surrenderedspark]

How strange. I wonder what caused such a shift in its lifeforms.

[video]

[glacius_passio]

War wiped everything out, and made the planet uninhabitable. Over time robotic facsimiles were built of previous animal lifeforms, mostly as early warning and defense systems.

[video]

[surrenderedspark]

Cybertronians are no strangers to war. It is sad to know this is what gave rise to technological life on Earth.

[video]

[glacius_passio]

There had been some mechaniloids before the war, but organic life hadn't been completely annihilated yet. By the time I was built, there was hardly anything left except for a city-state contained within a bio-dome.

[video]

[surrenderedspark]

That's... terrible.

[ Worse than Cybertron, really; but organics were often so delicate... he's not surprised. ]

[video]

[glacius_passio]

It seems to be an unfortunate result of sentient life, organic or otherwise. There has always been fighting, even before the widespread production of Reploids, but never anything quite at the same scale as the last war.

[video]

[surrenderedspark]

I am sorry that it came to that, for Earth.

[video]

[glacius_passio]

[She laughs suddenly, sheepishly.]

Oh my, listen to me ramble on and on about the past. I'm sorry about that, I got so distracted I didn't even introduce myself. My name is Leviathan.

[video]

[surrenderedspark]

I am Prowl.

[ That's not a name or work he really recognizes, but accepts it as given. ]