"But with this and Zokez, we'll have footage of both a ground and a space battle against them. The data from this attack will be much richer, thanks to you, but we still may be able to extrapolate some parallelisms. Of course ideally we would have won BOTH of them instead of just one..."

"Gone? But he was-" She twisted in her seat, looking towards a far wall in Engineering as though expecting to see a fair-haired familiar face bob into view, the rat on his shoulder, laptop under his arm. "But he was just here. I, he, oh hell." She swung her attention back to her screen, watching the datagraphs, and widened her eyes wide enough that the tears thinned out and didn't escape.

"He might just be in GLaDOS," she finally offered, but they could all tell from the tone of her voice that she didn't really believe that.