2. [VOICE]

[warborn]

So here's a question. We've got the - 'Haven', whatever, the quadrants and temples and whatever inside of it, and other than that we've got the Badlands.

But this is Cybertron, right? That can't be it. So has anyone bothered doing any real exploring? See what's out there?

[there has to be more...right?]

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PRIVATE; Vandal

Hey.

You still got some of your - what'd you call it, whiskey?...any of that left?

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PRIVATE; Ultra Magnus

[attached is his 'usual' datalog - the progress report, as it were - but there something else he adds, short and curt;]

Done with Rung.

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PRIVATE; Whirl [Text]

[he thought a long while before sending this. but. may as well just...do this, himself, before it's brought up anyway.]

Not gonna see Rung anymore.

He'll be safe from me.

Comments

[lifepersists]

[ First Aid shakes his head. ]

I thought you were better than that. I'd figured... it might have been a mistake.

[warborn]

[...he wants to say something, but just...nothing's coming out. nothing right is coming to mind and yet there's so much in mind, he just...he can't...]

...they didn't deserve it.

[it's...as much as he can admit, right now.

that he did them wrong. but even those words, he can't...]

[lifepersists]

They didn't.

[ When First Aid is disappointed in you, you know you've fucked up. He doesn't really get angry. He doesn't raise his voice. ]

Please have a safe trip, Maximus. I hope you find what you're looking for.

[warborn]

...yeah.

Me too.

[that's...as much a dismissal as he's heard of any. so if First Aid doesn't make to stop him, he'll just be...

making

to go now.]