Something was not right, Serina thought as she surveyed the ship’s deck. It’s been two years, six months, four hours, eight minutes and five seconds since they have escaped the Forerunner’s Shield world. Ever since then the crew of the ship has been in deep cryo sleep. The Spirit of Fire’s FTL reactor was sacrificed in the shield world in order to detonate the planet and deny the price for the covenant; the price that would have wiped out humanity in a blink of an eye. Therefore now they can’t travel through the slipspace and enter the UNSC space territory, which means they have to take the long route home. As Serina went through the Crew’s vitals as routine, she remembered all the brave souls who gave their lives in order to the save the humanity especially Sgt. Forge. As she thought abou