"It's what I fought for." Saving humanity, doing good, trying to make it matter- that was a part of it too. But going to basic and shipping out- it was to protect places like this. Calm and quiet little towns that should never have to deal with the Covenant.

After a moment he looks over, brow quirked. "It's easy to forget if you spend too much time on the front but- this. Was what we were supposed to come back to. Or something like it."