He didn’t wait for a response. “Harmony is the greatest protector ever created. It has done its job tremendously well… but the ones it’s protecting us from are all dead. So are the ones who killed them, and the monsters who killed them.” He cupped one hand around his ear, or at least where she thought was his ear. “I’ve been listening. Nothing but the incessant beeping of Forerunner information stockades from here to the end of the galaxy.”