"This was the first time you'd been affected by this place's tricks... wasn't it?" he asked, very quietly. He still looked at the ground as well, still hunched in on himself. As if by avoiding that gaze, he'd manage to hold this together. "There isn't anything we can do, if it turns us crazy. Or... makes us do foolish things like that."

Because that's all it was, wasn't it? Just the energon. Not real feelings.

"I'm only worried," he admitted. He had to be honest. Shadowmaru deserved nothing less than perfect honesty from him. "Worried you never wanted to see me again. I'm not angry with you."

Maybe with this place. But that was nothing unusual.