1) Silence fills the empty grave, but questions linger on. Now I will ask, and you will answer.
2)This is not your grave(incomprehensible roars) but you are welcome in it.
3) Cortana: What...is that?
Gravemind: I? I am a monument to all your sins.
[Two more tentacles descend holding a struggling Arbiter.]
Chief: Relax. I'd rather not piss this thing off.
Arbiter: Demon!
Gravemind: This one is machine and nerve, and has its mind concluded. This one
is but flesh and faith, and is the more deluded.
Arbiter: Kill me or release me parasite! But do not waste my time with talk.
Gravemind: There is much talk. And I have listened. Through rock and metal
and time. Now I shall talk, and you shall listen.
[Another tentacle comes into view, wrapped around a monitor with a red eye.]
2401: Greetings! I am twenty-four-oh-one Penitent Tangent. I am the monitor
of installation zero-five.
[Yet another tentacle. This one is merged with a half-Flood Regret.]
Regret: And I am the Prophet of Regret...counciler most high...Hierarch of the
Covenant!
2401: A Reclaimer? Here? At last! We have much to do. This facility must be
activated if we are to control this outbreak!
Regret: Stay were you are! Nothing can be done until my sermon is complete!
2401: Not true. This installation has a successful utilization record of one-
point-two trillion simulated and one actual. It is ready to fire on demand.
Regret: Of all the objects our Lords left behind, there are none so worthless
as these Oracles! They know nothing of the Great Journey!
2401: And you know nothing about containment! You have demonstrated complete
disregard for even the most basic of protocols!
Gravemind: This one's containment...and this one's Great Journey are the same.
Your Prophets have promised you freedom from a doomed existence. But you will
find no salvation on this ring. Those who built this place knew what they
wrought. Do not mistake their intent, or all will perish as they did before.
Chief: This thing is right. Halo is a weapon. Your Prophets are making a big
mistake.
Arbiter: Your ignorance already destroyed one of the Sacred Rings demon. It
shall not harm another.
Gravemind: If you will not hear the truth, then I will show it to you. There
is still time to keep the key from turning. But first, it must be found. You
will search one likely spot, and you will search another. Fate had us meet as
foes, but this ring will make us brothers!