The Return

The Return is the 12th short story in Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe. Written by Kevin Grace, this story follows a Sangheili Ship Master as he travels back to the human colony world Kholo. This story takes place after the events of Halo 3 in which the Sangheili are no longer serving the San 'Shyuum.

Plot
Set six years after the end of The Human-Covenant War, an elite Shipmaster returns to the glassed colony of Kholo in order to find forgiveness for his sins. He lonely ventures through the remains of the colony occasionally remembering the glorious days of when he interrogated a human pilot and glassed the colony and the sadder days of the Covenant Civil War. After several days of searching he discovers Jackal pirates fighting human survivors. After killing the Jackals he finds a lone Human survivor. Realizing the survivor would soon be dead, the Shipmaster leaves him and continues looking around the base. Soon he finds photos of humans pestering with Forerunner technology. Realizing this could be what he was looking for, he returns to the human survivor and calls for help.

Writing style
The Return Follows a unique writing style in which as the Ship Master recalls past experiences, the text turns to italics to indicate a shift to a previous time period.