Halo: The Mona Lisa Novels & Stories

“Luna!” Maya shouted as she run hurriedly towards Avery. “What’s wrong? Why are you in a hurry?” Maya looked around the lake. “The Alpha…” She sighed deeply. She was out of breath. “The Alpha decided to bring the white lotus to the banquet!” “Say what?” “The Alpha was firm about it, no matter what the other council said! He’s fucking out of his mind!” “Maya, watch your words.”

There were four lights in all. Three smaller one, and the big one that seemed to do all the talking. The red balls hanging in the air suggested eyes, but not in a Sauron ‘I see everything’ kind of way, more a HAL ‘Hello, Dave’ kind of way. A harmonised version of Daisy, Daisy could break out at any moment. There’s a rumour, strongly denied, that HAL, in the movie 2001, was meant to represent the firm IBM. If you take a letter away from each of the letters in I-B-M you get H-A-L.