Hey to all my faithful readers! I'm back from break, and as promised I have the next part up for your enjoyment! And I also have a brief question for y'all--should I include the Oracle's viewpoint or not? At any rate, enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own Halo.
Part Three: Truth
So this is the way of the universe.
All my life I have doubted the great mystery that is the basis of the Covenant, doubted that the Great Journey was real. Only the legacy left to us by the Forerunners—and their extinction—proved the possibility. Never would I have thought that some might be left behind. And here I am, a Hierarch with a destructive secret and a name that is a lie.
When Regret first came with his offer, to sit on the throne of the Hierarchs, I only accepted so that I could make better use of my current office than what I had: to have no one question my final decisions had appeal. Otherwise, I had no real desire in Regret's scheme—until we sought the Oracle's blessing. Never would I have expected to learn that everything we had always believed in was a lie. And yet, the proof was there, outrageous and unsettling, but irrefutable.
So these humans, these primitive beings with barely any technology, are the heirs of our divine makers. The Oracle would not lie—it cannot lie—and I doubt Mercy would dare to tamper with the Oracle and create the lie, nor is he capable of any charade of this magnitude. But this new truth would destroy the Covenant, something I cannot allow. Indeed, it almost destroyed it the moment we knew, for the Oracle tried to take the dreadnaught and seek out these humans; were it not for the Lekgolo crawling through the ship's systems, High Charity would have been destroyed. Afterwards, even Mercy agreed the holy Oracle had to be disconnected, for the good of the Covenant.
And here I am now, the Most High Prophet of Truth, all due to these humans and the secret of their existence. Truth—I could have chosen any other name, and there were many others that would have been grander and far more flattering. Yet I chose this one, a simple reminder of the lies that I must tell, the lies that will protect the Covenant from annihilation.
The truth that humans are the true heirs to the great Forerunner mystery must never come to light.