"No," Arrash says, a bit too sharply. It pauses to calm its tone before it speaks again. "You are doing nothing that would discomfort me." And it dares her to suggest otherwise.

On the matter of family it has little more to say. Arrash has found many people it can work smoothly with, as it ascends the ranks, but it wouldn't go so far as to say they have a rapport. Certainly never to ascribe them such a label as 'family'. Another feature of Transformer culture it can only know, without understanding.