"It does?" he asked. He turned a little, then, looking at the Cybertronian directly. "Are you afraid of the water?"

He very nearly put a too at the end of the second question. Though, it wasn't really true. More, he disliked it than feared it.

Something close to a smile flickered on his own face. "He's looked out for me..." And then trailed off. "It's good. That you met him. Now you have someone else to speak to."

He was, of course, automatically assuming anyone who had met Soundwave had made friends with him.