"Soundwave is being the hopeless romantic he always is," Ravage says, laughing softly. "He likes being married, so now he thinks everyone else ought to be, too."

He looks up at his husband in deep amusement. "Really. You shouldn't have said that. You'll scare the poor deity."

Ravage is a brat. And he knows this.

"I'm sure they'll teach him to make things. And he'll probably give the friendship bracelets to the children, so that they know they are his friends, and the pot-holders to Esmeral, in the vain hope that she'll stop banning his BC accounts."