"I was an idiot," Wash replied harshly. "I thought I was being a hero. Fighting the Covenant. Saving humanity. We all did." Wanting to save people. That hadn't ended well. "The last person I tried to save shot me in the back and left me for dead. The Project I gave my life to because I thought it was the right thing, fucked me over." He reaches up without thinking, rubbing the back of his neck through the scarf.