[ Oh, there it goes. Things the drones actually respond to: not Steven trying to tread verbal water on the assumption that this is a weird... faux-loyalty test with a shock on the line. There's a clear and more potent interest before Catra even finishes her second question.

And a noteworthy lack of sudden punishments.

Given the option, Steven would rather have done the guinea pig work making sure of that himself. Life's not big on always giving the option, though. There was a waters-test before he even thought to do one. ]

I mean, if you're not being nice to people, that usually has a way of leading to people being jerks back? It's kind of a cycle.