(He explains, trying to avoid how weird it is that a lot of people have been comforting him lately. Not just here, but back 'home'. But, Cortana is dead there and alive here, he takes his lumps with his victories.)
I'm better with her. (He concedes; she literally makes him better. She's there to make him more efficient, to make sure that he gets the job done. Without her, he would have fired the Halo rings and killed all life in the galaxy. But, more importantly, she makes him human. The Spartans were his family, and as time wore on and the war raged, he was the last Spartan-II left. Cortana, to him, is everything that he has left.)
(ACTION.)
(He explains, trying to avoid how weird it is that a lot of people have been comforting him lately. Not just here, but back 'home'. But, Cortana is dead there and alive here, he takes his lumps with his victories.)
I'm better with her. (He concedes; she literally makes him better. She's there to make him more efficient, to make sure that he gets the job done. Without her, he would have fired the Halo rings and killed all life in the galaxy. But, more importantly, she makes him human. The Spartans were his family, and as time wore on and the war raged, he was the last Spartan-II left. Cortana, to him, is everything that he has left.)