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CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
TIME:DATE STAMP [[ERROR]] ANOMALY\Revised date
estimated 0450, September 12,2552, captured Covenant
flagship Ascendant Justice, in Slipspace en route to
Eridanus system.
Dr. Halsey buzzed the door open, and the Master Chief en-
tered the clean room.
"You wanted to see me, Doctor?" He quickly looked the room
over—taking in the adjoining surgical suites, and the strange or-
ange sterile-field lamps set every meter into reflective recessions
in the tiled walls.
Dr. Halsey had clamped five displays onto the arm of one of
the contoured examination chairs in this room. She sat
cross-legged in the chair and balanced a large
alphanumeric-symbolic keyboard on her lap. Perched
precariously on the side tray were Styrofoam cups of half-drunk
coffee.
She waved the Chief forward. "I see you are ignoring sound
medical advice by moving before you have fully healed."
"I'm fine, ma'am," he replied.
She snorted in disbelief. "John—I've never known you to tell
an outright lie. I'm picking up telemetry from your armor, right
now." She swiveled one of the monitors on her chair so he could
see erratic biosigns pulsing on the screen. "What with the burns,
contusions, fractures, and internal bleeding, you should be in
shock. The only sleep you've gotten in a week was unconscious-
ness brought on by your wounds. And you say you're 'fine'?"
He stood and said nothing.
"Very well. I suppose you know your limitations better than
anyone else." She turned the display back around. "I wanted to