He busied himself cracking his knucklejoints and avoiding optical contact until he was comfortable with it again - it only took a couple kliks.

"That's all right, I was just getting out of my room for a while. One benefit to being stuck here is that there's plenty of energon, and fly-overs relax me."

And whenever the looming notion of responsibility threatened to crush him, it was good to get a perspective above other 'bots.