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"That's certainly true." Megatron takes Loki's hand, slipping his fingers through his. "There weren't many forests on Cybertron even when I was a newspark, not that I would have seen them even if there had been. As for the children, it may help that I don't know anything at all about children, and have no expectations. Sparklings don't stay little very long, and they're usually brought up together by people whose job it is to give them whatever training and programming they'll need. Families of the sort that humans and Asgardians have aren't really a thing in our world. Some very wealthy people used to take newsparks out of the creches and raise them up to be heirs to their Houses. But that wasn't always a good thing. There were often expectations for sparklings raised privately. Soundwave ended up in the street as a young mech for failing to meet them."

Megatron looks around, taking in everything. "One doesn't see sparklings often these days. They used to rise from the ground in great numbers in sacred places, but not very often nowadays, and it has been so long since lovers struck a spark that some believe it is a myth. That's one of the reasons I'd keep it, if we did, even though this is a terrible time for it. In addition to being a hopeless romantic. There are so many spark-bound partners I know and I've not seen it once. Not with Ravage and Soundwave, nor Knock Out and Breakdown, nor Strika and Obsidian and Lugnut, nor Chromedome and Rewind..."