Maybe she could escape to the Insurrectionist worlds afterwards then? It was going to be pretty chaotic once Regret started invading. It wouldn't be the Earth that she knew, of course, and she would have to deal with the spooks from ONI. A way off of the Ring, perhaps? Or even a way back to Earth? Master Chief had managed it. …On the other hand, there might be a way to escape this situation. But if the alternative was undeath by Flood, maybe it was worth revisiting the option. She had dismissed it hours ago, reasoning that the intelligences responsible for her predicament could simply revive her if she failed to do whatever their nebulous goals required of her. Perhaps death by starvation would be preferable after all, she thought. Beneath her feet were cubic kilometres of zombie space dust just waiting to be released by the aforementioned zealots. It also meant that this Halo was probably filled with Flood. That meant this was probably Alpha Halo or Delta Halo, and the worst of the Human-Covenant War was yet to come. Worse yet, the Halo that stretched into the distance seemed solid, devoid of the piecemeal appearance and 'basalt columns' of Zeta Halo. Each one was filled with horrid alien zealots who wanted nothing more than to turn her into a smoking corpse. She could see Covenant cruisers in the far off sky. What else was she to do? The architects of her arrival here had given her no instructions, no further knowledge other than that her raison d’etre was to be here.ĭeath was probably waiting for her, Anne thought morosely.

Still reeling from that existential dread, she had been making her way across the grass, towards the Forerunner structure in the distance. Whichever deities that had placed her here, on Halo, had clearly wanted to send her a message.

The third and final thought was the inexplicable but bone deep knowledge that she was merely the copy of that girl’s mind, placed into a newly materialised Spartan-IV body. The second was a memory of being a data analyst in 2022, who had just taken a nap, ready to play Elden Ring over the weekend. The first was that she was on Halo the overhanging ribbon of grass and mountains could attest to that. When Anne had woken up on a grassy plain many hours ago, three things were at the forefront of her mind.

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