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And for the first time in a decade, I didn't play to win.

Inside was a single text document. It read: But the mission never ends. To exit, uninstall your last ten years. Y/N? I stared at the prompt. My cursor was a tiny, blinking UNSC logo.

I played to listen to the rain.

I pressed N.

It finished. The screen went black.

I should have known. The ellipsis at the end of the filename wasn't a typo. It was a door left ajar.

The screen went black. The jazz started. Real this time. The main menu loaded—the proper one, with the burning skyline and the saxophone wailing like a wounded animal. I clicked "Campaign." I selected "Normal." I started the first mission. Halo 3- ODST Campaign Edition -Normal Download ...

Then, the sound. Not the familiar, mournful saxophone of the main menu. This was a wet, clicking static, like a Kig-Yar's claws on glass. My monitor flickered, and I was there.