

Therefore, immediately after the service for Dr. Either way, the arguments were moot until we found the vessel. Others on our team disagreed, believing that the Borealis might hold the secret to the revolution's success. Eli had felt strongly that the Borealis should be destroyed rather than allow it to fall into the hands of the Combine. Judith Mossman, which we believed to mark the location of the lost research vessel Borealis. We had the Arctic coordinates, transmitted by Eli's long-time assistant, Dr. It was the strong belief of his brave daughter, the feisty Alyx Vance, that we should continue on as her father had wished. And yet, once Eli had been buried, we found the strength and courage to regroup. The Resistance team was traumatized, unable to be sure how much of our plan might be compromised, and whether it made any sense to go on at all as we had intended. To begin with, as you may recall from the closing paragraphs of my previous missive, the death of Eli Vance shook us all.

I do first apologize for the wait, and that done, hasten to finally explain (albeit briefly, quickly, and in very little detail) events following those described in my previous letter (referred to herewith as Episode 2). In the time since, I have been able to think occasionally about how best to describe the intervening years, my years of silence. This was the case until eighteen months ago, when I experienced a critical change in my circumstances, and was redeposited on these shores. I can hear your complaint already, "Gordon Freeman, we have not heard from you in ages!" Well, if you care to hear excuses, I have plenty, the greatest of them being I've been in other dimensions and whatnot, unable to reach you by the usual means.
