"Right. That sounds... ah, reasonable," Jetfire said slowly, leaning back in his seat and crossing his arms. He's not sure that's enough, though, because it does sound like a reasonable explanation.

Entirely so, which pings a whole lot of warnings and why would Starscream be so reluctant to admit to that?

But.

Optics narrowing, Jetfire put that aside for the moment, because maybe the two were related in some way and asking for one would lead to answers to the other.

"New... er, position, though? Starscream, what have you been doing?" He knew perfectly well Starscream didn't like Megatronus, so what was going on?