"If you can't fight for yourself, you should find someone to do it for you." Starscream was clearly the king of unsolicited advice. "And if you want me to shut my trap, you can tell me that too. Promise I won't go off."

He brightened visibly at the praise, latching onto it in the obvious kind of way that a hungry dog might make a beeline for a source of food, "It's not a problem. You don't owe me anything, it's not like that."