"A lot of things. Patrols are around the entire galaxy, really. Declan prefers patrols over strikes because he can do things at his own pace. We cleared out an old air base, sorted through the wreckage in order to get valuable codes, powered up an old relay to connect comm bases on Earth and the Moon again and fought off an infestation of Fallen we found along the way. We fought some hive, too, but they were just straggled from an old seed ship. Well, he fought them. I don't really have any weapons," Ghost mused, twisting about in his version of a shrug before hovering over to watch Aoba again.

"He usually takes a day or so to do those things, but he made a point to get it all finished in a timely manner so he could come home. He really was looking forward to this breakfast. It almost makes me wish I could eat, just so I could see what it's all about."