[ Choosing to issue that order, to single Jane out, is a calculated risk, and Starscream is placing a grudging amount of trust that Arcus is telling the truth about the obedience coding. And Arcus' reaction frankly... does not leave Starscream with positive vibes. ]
I trust you will not give me reasons to be more... restrictive, with you.
[ He's not fooling either of them with the niceties. ]
Don't misunderstand: I am not interested in lengthening your list of standing orders beyond what I feel is necessary for my safety aboard this ship. But do not mistake that as a lack of willingness to do so.
[ Does that make it better or worse, that Starscream doesn't want to but would anyway? Dealer's choice. ]
Then for the moment we do not have anything else to discuss.
[ No mode-lock order for now. No revocation of the Primal Vernacular permission. But certainly a hardline on the willingness to restrict those and even more freedoms if pushed. And Starscream will not forget the threats made if the coding should ever fail. ]
[The fact that he's coming out of this not really having to prove it works is unexpected and suspect, but he won't look too deeply into it, yet. Nor will he complain. Small 'blessings' where they come, after all.]
By your leave, then.
[Once dismissed, he's going to head on out and very much to the other side of the ship to digest everything that's happened so far.]
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I trust you will not give me reasons to be more... restrictive, with you.
[ He's not fooling either of them with the niceties. ]
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That won't be required. Sir, even if I don't like an order, I will obey it. [Truth, truth, honest truth--!]
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[ Does that make it better or worse, that Starscream doesn't want to but would anyway? Dealer's choice. ]
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And then there's a deadpan stare, and, dryly:] You don't say.
[How the frag an organic factors into all of this, he doesn't know and he's not inclined to ask right now.]
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[ No mode-lock order for now. No revocation of the Primal Vernacular permission. But certainly a hardline on the willingness to restrict those and even more freedoms if pushed. And Starscream will not forget the threats made if the coding should ever fail. ]
Wrap?
By your leave, then.
[Once dismissed, he's going to head on out and very much to the other side of the ship to digest everything that's happened so far.]