"That's...a little hard to comprehend, I'm sorry. Even the aliens we've been fighting back home are still organic at the end of the day." But hadn't he seen those metallic Forerunner Sentinels with his own two eyes? Sure, they were practically robots with some kind of advanced AI perhaps but even he had never seen a gem brought to life.

"That sounds like a hell of an adjustment process. You have my sympathies because I didn't come out of that wormhole whole either and it's been...hard readjusting myself." How strange that the things he'd taken for granted for so long were now gone and it left him feeling helpless in a way.