The more Heat smirks, the more SecUnit's expression goes deadly still, its eyes actually fixing on his - it might hate eye contact, but it makes exceptions for proving how serious it is. "I'm not making threats," it says. "I'm telling you the reality of the situation. You're the newcomer here."

(Assumption, but a well-grounded one - it has a good facial recognition index for every Drifter, by now, and it would absolutely have a profile on this asshole.)

"Your Tribes don't exist here." (Technically true, given that it doesn't know how Heat might be connected to Serph and it isn't going to throw the AI-turned-human under the bus.) "There's the Convoy, and then there's the entire planet that wants to tear us apart. And if you want to threaten to eat anyone here, I'll do to you what I did to the last person who tried to threaten me."