[Halsey's potential questions about what's starting to look very much like time travel evaporate at the rest of John's news, and her eyes widen. She doesn't doubt a single thing he's saying; if John were uncertain about his observations, he'd say so. Since he hasn't, what he's reporting is as reliable as if he were showing her video.]
Flood? Did you see any infection forms?
[How they got here and how the Flood got here are problems that can be investigated after they attend to the matter of not being turned into mindless, shambling horrors bent only on infecting every other piece of sentient life in the galaxy.
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Flood? Did you see any infection forms?
[How they got here and how the Flood got here are problems that can be investigated after they attend to the matter of not being turned into mindless, shambling horrors bent only on infecting every other piece of sentient life in the galaxy.
She is very studiously not thinking about Jacob.]