[honor. duty. valor. self-sacrifice. these are the tenants of being a spartan- no, a soldier. it's a code that they adhere to, it what separates soldiers from men with guns.
he's already lost cortana twice, he can't keep losing her like this. more and more, he can feel her slip away from him; all compass has to do is snap its fingers and he's in the void. how long is he going to mourn for her?]
Spartan 034, too. He's my second in command, but you know how little brothers are. He sacrificed his life, he shouldn't have to keep sacrificing it.
[he doesn't know war, is what he means. to sam it's not losing your family, your friends, entire planets. he's never walked into a brute camp and seen the bodies of what used to be people, or seen the tortured POWs. he's mourned for 32 years, please let him stop. he's so tired.]
(xi. v.)
he's already lost cortana twice, he can't keep losing her like this. more and more, he can feel her slip away from him; all compass has to do is snap its fingers and he's in the void. how long is he going to mourn for her?]
Spartan 034, too. He's my second in command, but you know how little brothers are. He sacrificed his life, he shouldn't have to keep sacrificing it.
[he doesn't know war, is what he means. to sam it's not losing your family, your friends, entire planets. he's never walked into a brute camp and seen the bodies of what used to be people, or seen the tortured POWs. he's mourned for 32 years, please let him stop. he's so tired.]