[ Wash has far more practice pretending than anyone realizes. In some ways, after Epsilon, the illusion had been broken, shattered apart the more the memories sunk in and dug into his mind, the more the echoes sounded through his head again and again even long after Epsilon was gone. In other ways, it was just. A different kind of pretend.
They never could tell how much he knew, until it was too late.
He wishes he could be proud of it. He is a little proud of it, in some smug, petty way, happy that he got some measure of the revenge he wanted, that some of his plan worked, that he got to speak to the Director and hear him realize where he'd gone wrong in trusting him. But the cost . . . ]
I had some help. I picked up a few sim troopers, headed to the containment facility. [ He shifts slightly in his seat, lifts a hand to pinch at his brow. ] It's a lot to explain, but I set off an EMP and got the Alpha killed in the process.
[ The Alpha. Just saying that name still stings. He says got killed, not was destroyed -- he says the Alpha was killed as if he was a person, not a program, not a thing. That's what he was, to Wash. That's who Church was. ]
The UNSC investigated, Freelancer got shut down, and I was put in custody.
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[ Wash has far more practice pretending than anyone realizes. In some ways, after Epsilon, the illusion had been broken, shattered apart the more the memories sunk in and dug into his mind, the more the echoes sounded through his head again and again even long after Epsilon was gone. In other ways, it was just. A different kind of pretend.
They never could tell how much he knew, until it was too late.
He wishes he could be proud of it. He is a little proud of it, in some smug, petty way, happy that he got some measure of the revenge he wanted, that some of his plan worked, that he got to speak to the Director and hear him realize where he'd gone wrong in trusting him. But the cost . . . ]
I had some help. I picked up a few sim troopers, headed to the containment facility. [ He shifts slightly in his seat, lifts a hand to pinch at his brow. ] It's a lot to explain, but I set off an EMP and got the Alpha killed in the process.
[ The Alpha. Just saying that name still stings. He says got killed, not was destroyed -- he says the Alpha was killed as if he was a person, not a program, not a thing. That's what he was, to Wash. That's who Church was. ]
The UNSC investigated, Freelancer got shut down, and I was put in custody.