Not it's not. If anyone else on this stupid ship knows how fraggin' awful it is, it's me.

[he squeezes a little harder, still not letting go.]

You're such a good person, Ratchet, and it's not something you should know how it feels. It's--

[riptide promptly shuts himself up, before he thinks too hard about tarn's claws on his spark chamber and how he used his voice to keep him barely alive for what felt like hours. even if ratchet's was an accident, he knows that the feeling of shutting down is fucking horrible.]