"Earth?" For a moment, there was some static on the HUD. No, no that can't be right. Cortana went back over her memory, and except for that aforementioned gap, everything lined up. That gap couldn't have been that long, could it? "Is your helmet on too tight? Because last I checked, Requiem isn't what I'd call near Earth."

Chief wasn't exactly known for joking around, he was being serious. But then, that made the situation all the more difficult. "This doesn't make sense. Is this why the bioreadings I'm getting are so drastically different?"