the empire of unsheathed claws

cybercatastrophe: So there's an elephant in my front yard.

thunderthighs: Okay, dumbaft, if we didn't all know exactly who you are, we sure do now. And soon we're going to know WHERE you are, too.

cybercatastrophe: Dream on. Also he is never going to conjunx you even if we don't blow his head off.

thunderthighs: I don't know about that. They all said that about you, and if shareware like you can get someone to take you to keep I guess anyone can.

emeraldwings: You are very close to the line, TT, but keep it up.

thunderthighs: And you say that this site isn't biased regarding the current situation.

cybercatastrophe: As I was saying.

cybercatastrophe: "but CC, it followed me home...."

cybercatastrophe: "Is that because you let it out of a cage?"

cybercatastrophe: "...maybe? But CC, it was a really small cage."

cybercatastrophe: "To be fair, DJWaveform, it's a really small elephant."

cybercatastrophe: "Too small to be living alone!"

cybercatastrophe: "But living with a bunch of Decepticons is a better option?"

cybercatastrophe: Readers, I caved.

cybercatastrophe: I'm going to let it slide. I'm not heartless enough to accept humans keeping baby elephants in cages. And besides they can be toilet trained.

cybercatastrophe: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-334815/Smelly-elephant-toilet-trained.

cybercatastrophe: See this is actually an actual thing.

thunderthighs: "See this is actually an actual thing." Gentlemechs, the REAL Voice of --

emeraldwings: I will ban you for doxxing, see if I don't.

thunderthighs: I swear when we win I am going to find out who YOU are.

cybercatastrophe: Shut the frag up already. And I don't know where you picked up your latest UN, but whoever told you that was a compliment in human was lying their aft off.

cybercatastrophe: He promised no more minis without asking. But an elephant isn't a mini.

The doctor asked me gently if anyone was hurting me.
I was insulted. Is that what they think we're all like?

No, I said. You clearly know there's something going on.

They say they're different from us and they are.
Never a warning that privacy doesn't exist for us here;
We knew they were listening, which is how it all started again
because I had to let him hold my hand to have a private conversation.

I told them, okay, I've been hurt by this mech.
He broke my spark when he gave up on us, who loved him,
and told us he didn't trust us to course-correct.

When he asks me to stand with him under your symbol
And abandon the only person I've ever loved more?
Sure, it feels like he's pulling my cables out--what do you know?

And the one back home, that you've seen me with in the field--
how dare you assume that the way he speaks to me in a fight
is the way he speaks to me in our berth?

Can you not understand that I have never been afraid of him?
I just want to be able to say that I choose him again, and have it be true.

So, yes.
I am absolutely feeling unsafe.
And people are hurting me here.

But actually I didn't say a word of that,
because I need their help.

even among the ones who know better
we still fall into old patterns

I shouldn't have let them change me
but it was so tempting
to let you carry me next to your spark
and sliding through tape heads, completely encased
was even a greater pleasure than I had imagined

(and we only ever pretended we even had a choice)

but I should have known that once he was gone,
someone would set you above me
because even before you had two legs
and I ran on four

do not be afraid.
we will both come home.
we will not be alone.