The way I heard it..... Speaker: you know I can't condone your plan of action. Shin: I'm not asking for your blessing. Speaker: Good because you won't get it. You know this won't bring them back. Shin: I know. Speaker: then who are you doing this for? What are you trying to prove Shin? Shin: I have nothing to prove. And I'm doing this for him. Speaker: He's gone for good, you have to let this go. For your own sake. Shin: you know I can't do that. Speaker: and you know Cayde won't sign off on this. Shin. He doesn't have to. Speaker: this is a critical moment in the war. We need every guardian we have fighting for the light. Not dying over personal vendettas. If you abandon us, if you turn your back on the light, you'll be just as bad as the monster you're hunting. Shin: If I stay, I'll never be as good as the man the monster once was. Speaker: so you would rather allow the darkness to consume you, just as it did him? Shin: I'm afraid, it already has. Speaker: what about luna? Is she not worth living for? Shin: it's been 3 weeks since the vanguard sent them up there to die. She's gone, Eris is gone, all of them. Toland warned us and they're gone anyway. Just like everyone else you've sent. Speaker: are you trying to punish us for that? Shin, the last thing any of us want, is to see guardians down. But this is war and sacrifices must be made. It's the life of a guardian. Shin: The life of a guardian? No, that's the death of one. and that's all we're good for. We fight until we die. We die until we can't revive, and then we are replaced. Speaker: what would you have us do? Lay down our arms? Allow the darkness to consume every man, woman, and child? You're right Shin, guardians are here to fight and die, so others won't have to. That's precisely what they are for. Shin: then I am not one. Speaker: Will that really be your last word? Shin: - Speaker: you know Shin, there's an ancient proverb, from long before the traveler. Before the golden age, all the way back, before humanity had learned the importance of unity. When the only wars were fought amongst ourselves. In the times of the ancients, they had a quarter of our knowledge, and a tenth of our technology. They had only wisdom that was equal to what we have now. All those years ago, and still even they knew, when you choose, to set out on the path of revenge, you should first dig two graves. One for your enemy and one for yourself. Shin:...I am halfway there, my journey will end when I dig his...not mine. Speaker: that was the last time I ever talked to my student, my friend, Shin Malphur. He is gone. But not forgotten. His legend still burns bright in the eyes of every young guardian. The horrid tale of Dredgen Yor's thorn, and The Last Word of renegade hunter Shin Malphur. The only one to face the monster, alone in the dark, and walk away, back into the light.