Beautiful hope

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Perceptor appears in the Nexus with the swish and slight flash of a PINpoint, and then immediately looks down at the two tiny beings in his arms, who are responding to the teleport with a flurry of excited cheeping and limb flailing

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[icycrazyhothead]

Here, have a Swindle!

This Swindle is busy poking some information in a datapad as he walks by, and curiousity gets the better of him. "You look familiar," Swindle says, then grins at the two little ones.

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"Do I?" Perceptor cocks his head quizzically at the taller bot as his children express their infant approval of the Decepticon's shininess.

[icycrazyhothead]

"Yes...and I can't seem to place how," Swindle says, then offers his hand, "My name is Swindle."

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"Swindle!" The red mech startles slightly, but offers his own free hand as the babies calm and watch the interaction with interest. "Ah... quite a different construction from the Swindle of my own past acquaintance. I quite didn't recognize you. Er...."

[icycrazyhothead]

"It is quite alright," Swindle says, "Different realities sometimes do have different construction. From your first reaction, I take it you own Swindle is not on the friendly side?"

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"Ah, no. I would have to say he was decidedly on the hostile side during the few times we had interaction. Though I understand that since the truce and subsequent alliance between the factions he's settled down most peacefully and gone into a most prosperous business venture."

He pauses and looks down at a peep from one of the babies. "What is it, Shiloh? Oh, mercy me. How rude of me."

[icycrazyhothead]

With that Swindle actually grins, "You sound like Perceptor...you wouldn't happen to be one, would you?"

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"Ah. Er, yes. Actually, I am. And these are my wards, Shiloh, and Priyasha."

Little peeps sound in response to the names, and little heads bob as wide golden eyes watch the Decepticon.

[icycrazyhothead]

"Are they dragons?" Swindle asks, waving his fingers at the little ones, then smiles, "I work with my reality's Perceptor on inter-reality studies. Blitzwing does most of the field work, however."

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"They're Meredronians. Priyasha is an infant female, and Shiloh is a male." Perceptor watches his little ones wriggle and peep excitedly. "They do closely resemble the draconian creatures of old Earth mythology, which leads me to consider if perhaps a family might have once nested there some time before recorded human history. However most Meredronians do not exhale flame, so I am still at a loss as to how that part of the mythos became so deep rooted."