I hope you scolded him for lying.

The small MiniBot padded out of the room quickly, trying her best not to wake up Toothless.

Perhaps it was the life who had finally started to grow within her, or just the usual churning of her mind that glued her optics open. Whatever it was, the ceiling and walls had become rather boring. She paused for just a moment by a door, the one leading into Fireflight's shrine, the one she normally went through on nights like this one, before she slipped out the hatch. Squeaker had parked near the sea, near Shoal, this time, and carefully walked to the spot where they always met.

He wouldn’t be there, but the memories they shared would be. And that was well enough for her. Really.

She sat a little bit further up than she usually did, not exactly wanting to go anywhere near the inky expanse of horrors, and stared up at the dark, moody sky. The stars seemed to all be brooding in a nest of clouds. Not weather. Nothing that she could sense yet at least. The purple and grey Autobot pulled her tattered, worn-out red blanket tightly around her shoulders anyways. It was more comfortable that way—like a hug.

Then she sent out a hushed ping, just loud enough to barely be heard if the mech was awake, but hopefully nowhere near loud enough to wake him.

She’d be okay on her own tonight.

((no yeah obviously we-the-muns have no idea how old anyone is, except occasionally "older than this; younger than that" ranges. Especially Aligned, god, Aligned is such a mess. But—yeah, I usually assume that most characters know when they were made, even if we don't.))

((... Roughly, at least. Like, I can see Aligned bots only having a rough range for their creation day, since once they're born they've gotta spend a probably varying amount of time crawling out of the Well and fighting monsters before they join society. But they might count the day they emerge at their official birthday.))

((it's probably easier for like, IDW bots. If you're forged then the date your hot spot ignited is probably an easily-looked-up matter of public record, if you're cold constructed pre-war you can probably still pretty easily look up the date your own batch was built, if you're MTO it's also easy to look up the dates of the battle you were built for. Your birthday is part of your full name. Hence why I write Prowl as being baffled that people don't know when they were born.))

Will you lounge with me? 

(Bee jolts awake from the trance he put himself into. His optics play a field of colors in front of him, the specific thing he tried to keep himself out of, as he tunes into that frequency.) 

:: Shoal?! You can comm me?! ::

[s: Fairytale/Myth/Story] | [ ACCEPTING ]

[🎻] :||: “Beyond the furthest edges of the Dovian-Textrus galaxy is what some of my Denizens refer to as the “Sea of Stardust”: It is a vast expanse of uncharted territory that few dare touch. A legend has been passed down for countless generations that tells of a massive techno-organic creature that flows through it, as though a fish in a gentle stream, whose song will lead one to their demise. Others claim that, should you sing back to it, the creature will lead you to treasures beyond your wildest imagination. Those who say they have seen it from afar have lost their fortunes, but swear up and down that the Stardust Leviathan is real, but they are not brave enough to search for it again.”

     “It begs the question: Do we trust the sailors of the cosmos, or do we venture on regardless, and explore the unknown?”