Megatron stares at him in shock. He has no answer prepared for this. Indeed, he's been avoiding spending too much time around Orion Pax for this very reason. To be confronted with it directly...

Orion is right – this is the least ideal time he could possibly have asked – but it's hard to imagine there could have been an ideal time at all. It's with a similarly sinking feeling that Megatron realises the best he can do, for once, may be to tell Orion the truth.

He casts a quick scan up and down the corridor – this is not a conversation he wants overheard. When he looks back at Orion, his expression is solemn; distant.

"Neither do I."