Hal caught Sariel looking at him and he looked right back at her with a mild smile having successfully guessed what she was thinking because that was exactly what he was thinking too...
She and the Primevals who had hunted for him had been right... Partially.
A lot has happened so far and had taken precedence that caused Hal to barely spare the comprehension of an Ordinance any thought but that did not mean that Hal completely ignored the topic.
He knew now that the reason had been incapable of comprehending an Ordinance before entering this monument was because of the piece of Order stashed inside him.
With the piece of Order inside him, Hal received an affinity to all Ordinances and while he could theoretically have his pick of any one of them, affinity to the six Abstract Ordinances would always contradict one another as Hal was still a victim of the edict stopping all but Order itself from comprehending more than one abstract Ordinance.