[This particular crisis is over, and Halsey feels a tension she hadn't noticed drain out of her when John recovers his SPARTAN bearing. Being mysteriously stranded in a derelict military base from five or six hundred years ago is nothing compared to her concern for John's well-being. With the latter seen to, they can deal with the former.]
And now that you are back, we have other problems.
[Status quo restored, Halsey hopes, with respect to each other if not their places in the universe, and she's back to her usual cool demeanor that people mistake for callousness, brushing away a remaining tear before it can fall down her cheek. That's quite enough blatant sentiment for one day. She doesn't mind John seeing cracks in the ice, not for her own sake, but she can't go falling apart when one of her SPARTANs needs her.]
Do you remember how you got here? I simply woke up on a cot without ever having gone to sleep, or even noticing anything unusual at all.
[She can be drugged easily enough, but a SPARTAN is almost impossible to knock out, their MJOLNIR recording systems even more so.]
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And now that you are back, we have other problems.
[Status quo restored, Halsey hopes, with respect to each other if not their places in the universe, and she's back to her usual cool demeanor that people mistake for callousness, brushing away a remaining tear before it can fall down her cheek. That's quite enough blatant sentiment for one day. She doesn't mind John seeing cracks in the ice, not for her own sake, but she can't go falling apart when one of her SPARTANs needs her.]
Do you remember how you got here? I simply woke up on a cot without ever having gone to sleep, or even noticing anything unusual at all.
[She can be drugged easily enough, but a SPARTAN is almost impossible to knock out, their MJOLNIR recording systems even more so.]