If I was going to kill your plant, I simply would have. Nonetheless, I did make the threat and that was unacceptable even as I was being bitten. Your plant, even as it was biting me, is still effectively an innocent living thing; it was only following its instinct any hungry creature would have.

I cannot take back what I have not done about Eggman, but should the opportunity present itself, I intend to rectify.

[There's a pause as he looks at Surge with a thoughtful frown. He's genuinely trying to understand her here.]

...So, that is to say, you think of me as a friend?