"It's very distressing, isn't it? People will fight over rooms in a burning house, when they could simply stop and put out the fire and find that there's room enough for them all. But I will figure something out, even if I have to be devious. Sometimes, for pity's sake, nothing else works."

He blinks, a catlike gesture, the source of which is obvious. "You're a good man. You'll do what you can, and there's always here. It bothers me sometimes, how much less Cybertron comes to mean to me here. I love our base on Io, but there are many creatures on Earth I'd prefer to save, too."