Cliffjumper huffed at that, physically, but managed to abort his reaction before it's too obvious what he was doing.

::Eh, they're all slaggin' idiots. Crude, my aft.:: There's a brief pause as Cliffjumper grumbled, both mentally and along the comm. before his mood lightened again and he chuckled.

::Trust me, while it ain't terrible or anythin', he wouldn't be able to sneak up on anythin'.:: Cliffjumper chuckled and shooed Arcee away with a - perhaps surprisingly, perhaps not - graceful bow as a senator and two nobles came up; the large group briefly murmur pleasantries before Arcee went with them, off to the side.

The message Optimus got back from Mirage was a firm 'wait' and an acknowledgement of the message recieved, but not even a klik later Optimus got another one of those heavily encrypted, bounced messages.

This time, the sum of credits have been raised by two thirds.