- General
Uh, Mrs. Gunki77er?
- Mother
Yes, general?
- General
There's no easy way to say this. Your son died in a Halo firefight last night-
- Mother
What?
- General
Ten times, ending his game.
- Mother
That…that is a lot of times.
- General
Twelve times, actually. He got extras, too. Your son is not very good.
- Mother
Did anyone in his unit survive-
- General
No, he was just by himself.
- Mother
You sent him out alone? He didn't even have a partner?
- General
To be fair, your son didn't have many friends.
- Mother
How could this happen? He wasn't even a fighter- he was a medic!
- General
Yeah, he switched to Air Assault the second he saw jetpacks.
- Mother
Oh.
- General
Also, medic is one of our fighting classes for firefight, for some reason.
- Mother
Why would you do that?
The general shrugs.
- Mother
Well, at least my son…died a hero, slaying scores of aliens. He'll be a legend, monuments will be made for-
- General
No, no, it was on normal. Your son is just normal.
- Mother
So this is a normal thing?
- General
More or less. Except people usually do better. But now isn't the time for that. I brought you his medals.
- Mother
Killing spree…killing frenzy…killionaire? Couldn't you have, um, less awful names for the medals.
- General
Woah, I know losing a son is a killtrocity-
- Mother
Atrocity.
- General
That's what I said. But now is no time to insult the system. When your son respawns-
- Mother
He does what?
- General
In forty seconds. I'm sending him out on an easy mission. Get him trained, he'll be able to handle normal sometime late Killuary or Killarch.
- Mother
Do you just add 'kill' to words? That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard of.
- General
Go killuck yourself.
