“I mean, my kid was most of it, and Chorus was some, I think, and the whole diplomatic shit. And my sword—“ Which, let’s be real, he missed about as much as his kid. Who had it now? Would it even work for someone else if he wasn’t there, or did it view him as dead?

Shit, was it safer with him being away from there, from them, where he couldn’t immediately die in that damn trophy room and have it fall into the wrong hands?

Fuck. “I don’t know; there’s probably more stuff. The Sangheili have their prophecies, but I didn’t exactly pay that much attention.” What a surprise. Or maybe he wasn’t telling everything, keeping some of it close to his chest because he was a little wiser than he used to be.

Just a little.