Cut snippet from a story

[insecuriosity]

“…You came back from the dead, from being vaporised into fragments so small that nobody could even find me a vail full for a proper burial, and what I am hearing… Is that you came back, to take part in <em> politics </em>?!” Skyfire spoke slowly to let the meaning of his words sink in for the both of them.

 Starscream offered no defence or argument, outside of a carefully neutral shrug of his wings.

“… Were you always like this?” Skyfire said.