Blue was never much for conversation. Her Ghost, although he had been her Ghost for years now, bet he could count on human hands the number of times she openly spoke. She spoke so little in fact that her Fireteam never bothered to find out if she had a true name and came to nicknaming the Awoken girl 'Blue' due to her blue hair, skin, and eyes. If she had a real name she never said so. 'Blue' stuck so much so that her Ghost came to calling her it too. While her silence was a frequent frustration for their excitable Hunter and stoic Titan team members her Ghost didn't care. He would even say he loved having the freedom to talk so much. He learned early on how to interpret her gestures or expressions, translate them, and maybe even insert his own opinions here and there. But his absolute favorite thing to do was to explain things to his Guardian when she would point to something and look up at him with doe-eyed curiosity. It reminded him of children in the City who stared up at him in awe as they asked their parents what he was. Of course being a Warlock she was curious about everything so he spent a lot of time talking. Although, right now he was debating if this was one of those rare times to follow her example and stay quiet.

Blue and Ghost watched as their Hunter teammate, Momo, jumped from ledge to ledge, higher and higher, jumped way up, reach, but fall just short of the final ledge and fall all the way back down, completing her acrobat stunt with a sickening thud. Yaiz-5, their Titan teammate stood to the side with his arms crossed. He sighed and shook his head at his wife. Momo's Ghost joined in with his sigh before resurrecting his Guardian. Again. Blue wrung her hands and glanced at the stone doors covered in Hive runes that one of the Guardian's Ghosts probably should have hacked through by now.

"Almost had it that time!" The Awoken Hunter shouted when she was back up.

"Right, like you haven't said that before," Yiaz said.

Blue's Ghost let out a frustrated grunt and decided it was time to address the situation, "Don't you think it's time to get going? You've been trying to get up there for thirty minutes and we have a Hive nest to clear out." He scolded, "We can come back later."

"Don't blow a bulb, Little Light. That Hive nest isn't going anywhere." Momo smiled.

"Little Light. I hate that." Ghost hissed and turned towards the Hunter's Ghost, who Momo named Spector, "Do you let her talk to you like that?"

"She doesn't but I also don't have the same emotional receptors as you so I imagine I am much less entertaining to annoy," Spector answered to which Momo laughed.

Ghost groaned and turned to the Titan with the hope the Hunter's husband could talk sense into her but he was only shaking his head. Yiazs' Ghost, Circuit, wasn't even paying attention as she lazed on the Titans' shoulder, staring off at the walls.

"Besides," Momo started as she prepared to jump again, "Blue always stops to investigate stuff when we're in the middle of missions. You have no problem wasting time explaining things to her."

Ghost scoffed, "That-That's different! That's collecting knowledge, which is important to help us fight the Darkness."

"Well I like collecting other things and they can be important too! Besides Cayde gave me a hint on this location, I wanna check it out."

"Uhg...I hardly think any more of Cayde's artichokes or rabbit's paws will help us."

"Just relax and go study a patch of wormspore. She'll get the stash soon enough." Spector said.

Ghost grumbled and turned back to Blue, expecting the Guardian to be frowning at her team. To his lack of surprise she already moved off to a far corner and was kneeling on the ground. He sighed and floated over to her. Looking over her shoulders he saw she was looking at a broken piece of stone bearing a series of Hive runes. She looked up at him with that familiar curiosity and he complied by scanning the object.

"Looks like this was part of an inscription but most of it is missing. This mentions something about a death song."

Blue's eyes lit up and she removed her small notebook from the hidden pocket in her armored robes and began to scribble down notes.

Ghost's tailfins shifted with discomfort, "Might not want to investigate too much into that. Least you end up like….Erm...nevermind."

Blue blinked at him and tilted her head as if to ask, Why not? Thankfully her attention turned back to their team when Momo fell again and Yaiz laughed. She got up and wandered over to the commotion.

Ghost let out a mock exhale of relief even though he didn't need to breathe. His Guardian was curious and that could be a good thing. She was constantly investigating, observing, and studying things and people. In battle, she preferred to stay back compared to their bolder teammates who rushed head-on. Father away she could observe enemy movements or battle patterns to relay their strategies to other Fireteams and weaken enemy defenses. Studying enemy computers and objects often gave valuable information which could be used against their opponents.

But that curiosity could also be bad. He recalled hearing stories before he found Blue of certain Guardians who wandered too far into research of the Darkness and either never returned or returned changed for the worse. She wanted to know more about the histories of the races they encountered, how they are associated with the Darkness, and how could that be used to their advantage in this war. Once she admitted to him that part of the reason she doesn't speak often is that it gives her the opportunity to study someone. When someone was talking to Ghost they focused on him instead of her and she could watch them. People revealed a lot when they didn't know they were being observed. The way they fingered the butt of a sidearm one too many times, a nervous tick they had when caught in a lie, where their eyes looked when they spoke. She had wondered if the same practice could also be applied to interrogations with enemies they encountered.

When someone finally reads her notes, if at all, they might not like all that they find. If he could physically grimace at that thought he would. She had always been such a good Guardian and he feared what the Darkness might do to her if she got too close to it.

His musings were cut off with a ground-shaking roar causing all three Guardians to stop what they were doing and swing around to the locked doors.

"Don't tell me…" Circuit drifted up off Yiazs' shoulder with a groan.

Ghost hovered closer to Blue, "An Ogre...have I mentioned lately how much I hate Ogres?"

"Yes. You have." Spector answered.

"Enough," Yiaz interrupted as he jumped from his ledge to join Blue closer to the doors. Momo followed soon after. "Open the doors," Yaiz commanded as he checked his guns.

Ghost floated over to the door and made quick work of the rune locks. Unfortunately, when they finally opened a loud creaking groan erupted through the chamber as if to challenge the Ogre's roar.

"Do you think they heard that?" Ghost asked, his voice laced with anxiety. Blue glared at the droid and made a zipping motion across her lips with her index finger and thumb.

"Eyes up, Guardians. It's showtime." Circuit said before transmatting into her Guardians backpack as Spector did the same. Ghost shared an uneasy look with Blue before trasmatting into her pack and all three Guardians prepared their assault.