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Then BB recognized one Sangheili approaching Phil ips on a col ision course

"Professor," ‘Telcareat risk"

"I was invited by the Arbiter Seemed difficult to refuse"

"But why here? Where’s your pilot?"

"I left hirossed"

The two of the in another direction There was an entrance ahead, a very old building that had to be the teates and the caloo hard Keep going, Professor, BB thought That’s it Steady "This must date from before your first contact with the San’Shyuuures scuttled around the yet, just standing in the dappled shade of trees "I’nificance Now … tel me what you know about Jul ‘Mdama"

For a terrible moment, Phil ips’s heart rate went haywire BB confirh contact with the man’s chest to eject the needle, and hated himself for his instant efficiency

"Should I know hied at last

The two of the slowly toward the temple BB could see the entrance, but there see past the else had seized their attention

"What’s that?" Osman asked

Naomi didn’t blink "I think--"

Then the caht into the sun and the lens was struggling for a moment, fol owed by a split second of silence before a dul whooistered on BB’s analytical audio as an explosion The camera tipped: maybe Phil ips had fal en or dived for cover, or perhaps ‘Telcaoing on?" Ose?"

"I’l try, but--"

He could hear ‘Telcam’s voice, a little distant but definitely shaken "It’s not us," he said in Sangheili "It’s not us What in the na?"

There was no sound fro That was so explosion, this tiht, and the cam feed dissolved in static BB felt as if his arht he had no concept of himself as a corporeal entity, let alone one with limbs, until that moment

The silence was sudden and complete And he hurt

Osined a human could, even a Spartan She didn’t look at Naomi

"Kilo-Five, this is Port Stanley, " she said "Devereaux, get everyone back here right now We’re heading back to Sanghelios immediately Phillips is in trouble"

And if he was, there was nothing that BB, so used to being ubiquitous and al -seeing, could now do to help him or spare him, and he couldn’t even assess the threat that faced hi For the first ti, uncertain world his huues had to exist in

"Let’s move it, BB," Osman said "Stand by to slip"