And he's familiar with the concept. Familiar, enough, to recognize it when he sees it on the barely-recognizable half-mech before him. Familiar enough to crouch...to reach out, and touch the odd texture of Starscream's face.
The answer seems to satisfy him, though, even if his own eyes well up briefly with sadness, and he just nods.
It's all that he can do.
"They...are...all broken, here."
He's looking up, now, to the nose of the plane that's dwarfing the sky, to the rust eating away at the bolts and edges that constantly ebbed and flowed but never seemed to make its way through. Perpetual death, unending.
And one lost spark--surrendered but unyielding.
Conflict.
Balance.
Despair.
"...even you."
He shook his head, letting those blue eyes fall back down to red ones.
"But I remember."
"Some things."
Cities, skies, filled with jets and empty. Worlds like this one. Worlds not like this one.
Bright red, and white, and blue.
His hand came to rest on Starscream's cheek, and stayed there, and he rested on his knees at last.
He will pretend he did not hear that, so he does not have to pretend to not blush.
And he's familiar with the concept. Familiar, enough, to recognize it when he sees it on the barely-recognizable half-mech before him. Familiar enough to crouch...to reach out, and touch the odd texture of Starscream's face.
The answer seems to satisfy him, though, even if his own eyes well up briefly with sadness, and he just nods.
It's all that he can do.
"They...are...all broken, here."
He's looking up, now, to the nose of the plane that's dwarfing the sky, to the rust eating away at the bolts and edges that constantly ebbed and flowed but never seemed to make its way through. Perpetual death, unending.
And one lost spark--surrendered but unyielding.
Conflict.
Balance.
Despair.
"...even you."
He shook his head, letting those blue eyes fall back down to red ones.
"But I remember."
"Some things."
Cities, skies, filled with jets and empty. Worlds like this one. Worlds not like this one.
Bright red, and white, and blue.
His hand came to rest on Starscream's cheek, and stayed there, and he rested on his knees at last.