Starscream reached out to pat one of those shoulder joints, in what was ideally a reassuring way - he'd noticed Soundwave used physicality to calm and connect, and--well. It was sometimes effective (though that might just be because it was the friendly, compassionate Soundwave doing it).

"Yeah. You'd be understanding with a patient, right? If it were them coming to you with this. You deserve the same, too."

His engines purred pleasantly at the confirmation that Rung was still willing to look into Blurr and Vandal--he hadn't been lying about not knowing how to handle them himself--and stuttered a little at Ultra Magnus.

"Oh, him. Hey, he'd be ideal to supervise. I mean, unless this trouble patient of yours is Overlord..." Pause. "Or Megatron, but he's not here." Not bothering to disguise the naked relief at that second part.