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[thepurpleone]

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Just kidding, you got my inbox bu~t if you leave a message I will get back to you as soon as I possibly can."

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[incendiarism3]

[Wheeljack eases his tense posture a bit at the confirmation that Windshear can stay, though he is now wearing an expression that's half puzzled, half guilty]

Thank you, I- What? [He cycles his optics, almost giving an uncertain laugh at what is being said] I, ah... I promise to do my best? Although if I am needed, I would be unable to make any such promise. I will not shame myself or my friends again by being useless. [This last part comes out 'ore stiffly, and he shakes his head before continuing]

And, ah... We are going to be visiting a planet called Azure, for reasons it isn't my place to elaborate on. If all goes well, it should only be three days or so, I believe.

That said, I hope you will be careful, as well. Earthlings make wishes or promises over sweets, yes? I have some energon candy left over from the medibay that I was actually able to consume, if you'll believe it, is that close enough?

[thepurpleone]

[Donnie doesn't look particularly convinced there but he eventually sighs.]

There are always other ways to be useful. But I mean it. Be careful.

[He walks over to tug the bean bag chair he's long since claimed from the organic's hangout room as his own, flopping down onto it so he can unwrap his bandaged feet.]

Azure? Don't think I've heard of that. But then...there's a lot of places out there and we're always between systems. I should see if I can integrate a map or something into my computer to ping me whenever we're entering a new one.

[He rolls up one set of bandages and starts on the next, making a face at the cold floor as he puts his foot down. He'll need to dig out some socks.]

Sweets, wha? [Blinking, he looks over at Wheeljack again.]

I... am not really sure what you're talking about.

[Not that he was one to be making promises over a lot of things, but sweets even less.]

[incendiarism3]

Wheeljack looked away for a moment with replying. When he looked back he opened his mouth, then closed it. When he spoke again it was uncertainly. "Ah. It was in one of the films I watched with Hashtag once, humans lit the thing on fire and made a promise. Did they invent that for the film?"

"In any case, it doesn't matter. I expect an equal effort to come back from both of us, wish or not. I shall be very disappointed if either one of us-" A pause and a firm shake of his head. "We'll be fine. You aren't going alone, correct? You will have your brothers and-" He paused again, with a slight frown. He'd heard that name before, or saw it somewhere, but the last few days were enough of a blur that it was hard to remember details like that. "And your friend. That will be more than enough."

[thepurpleone]

I...am not connecting anything with fire and sweets and promises. -oh, are you talking about birthday cakes? That's just some kind of silly tradition involving impractical beliefs in regards to wishmaking.

[Donnie waves a hand.]

But yeah, it's going to be fine. My brothers are probably going to be needlessly overprotective as usual.

[incendiarism3]

[Wheeljack shrugged noncommittally, but he was even more curious about organic traditions, now. He almost asked what a practical belief in widhmaking would look like, before deciding to focus on other questions, instead. His optics brightened, then dimmed]

How protective is overprotective? You and Ratchet have said things that I would argue are protective, but where is the limit?

[thepurpleone]

Not letting someone go somewhere- or anywhere for that matter, without you thinking you need to accompany them, for one. It's like...yes, I know you care but I'm not going to break if someone breathes on me and it makes me feel like they don't believe I can take care of myself.

-just as an example.

[He wrinkles his nose, leaning back in his beanbag.]

It's true that we can't always anticipate everything that's going to happen, but just because something does, it doesn't make it someone else's responsibility if they weren't there to do anything about it, and there's no guarantee that things would go differently even if they were.