Halo Lighting System First Strike Games - Manual (Page 276)

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0440 hours, September 13,2552 (revised date, Military
Calendar)\Aboard hybrid vessel Ascendant
Justice-Gettysburg, station-keeping in Eridanus system.
Time was running out.
Dr. Halsey could feel the Covenant nearly upon them and her
window of opportunity shrinking to a pinpoint. Only a few more
things to take care of before she could go—before she started
something she couldn't stop.
Someone approached the clean room, heavy footfalls that
could only be a Spartan in MJOLNIR armor. Kelly appeared and
waved from the other side of the glass partition that separated
the clean room from the rest of Medical Four. Dr. Halsey buzzed
her in.
"Reporting for treatment, Doctor," she said.
Kelly hesitated a moment as she glanced about at the unsterile
environment the doctor had been working in: Styrofoam cups
littered the surgical instrument trays, thermal printout paper
curled from the biomonitors—and the radiation-emitting crystal
they had found on Reach sat on a nearby instrument tray.
"I thought that crystal was in the reactor room," Kelly said.
"Behind plenty of radiation shielding."
"It's perfectly safe," Dr. Halsey said, "as long as we're in nor-
mal space." She picked up the crystal and slipped it carelessly
into her lab coat pocket.
"Lie down please, Kelly." The doctor gestured to the con-
toured treatment chair. "Just a few more injections and we're
done with your burn therapy."
Kelly sighed and eased herself onto the reclined chair.