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[[File:John and Cortana re-unite - Close shot.png|thumb|right|300px|Cortana and John during their last meeting.]] | [[File:John and Cortana re-unite - Close shot.png|thumb|right|300px|Cortana and John during their last meeting.]] | ||
{{Quote|no=two|John-117|Cortana|q1=We go together. It was my job to take care of you.|q2=We were supposed to take care of each other. And we did.|John and Cortana during their last conversation.}} | {{Quote|no=two|John-117|Cortana|q1=We go together. It was my job to take care of you.|q2=We were supposed to take care of each other. And we did.|John and Cortana during their last conversation.}} | ||
Just before the blast could kill him, Cortana transported John off the ship and protected him in a | Just before the blast could kill him, Cortana transported John off the ship and protected him in a box of hard light. She also projected her avatar as a human-sized hard light construct, allowing her to face John and touch him at last. Rather than distraught like before, Cortana was at peace again, glad of their victory and that she could meet John this way. However, too much of her data had been left in the Didact's ship, which was rapidly falling apart from the blast. She had only enough power left to shield John away from the ship. In her last moments, she preserved John's hard light energy field while the Didact's ship collapsed around him.<ref name="midnight"/> Cortana and the hard light then faded away into nothingness.{{Ref/Reuse|Dead1}} | ||
After ''Infinity'' recovered John as he floated in space, he tried to face Cortana's death with his usual stoicism. However, Captain Lasky discerned that it was hurting him much more, and responded to John's thought of soldiers and people as two different things; he claimed that soldiers are people, not machines. After Lasky left the observation deck to give the Master Chief space to mourn her death,{{Ref/Reuse|Dead2}} John remembered that Cortana had made a similar quip before the pair left Requiem: ''"Before this is all over, promise me you'll figure out which one of us is the machine."''<ref>'''Halo 4''', ''Epilogue'' cutscene</ref> | After ''Infinity'' recovered John as he floated in space, he tried to face Cortana's death with his usual stoicism. However, Captain Lasky discerned that it was hurting him much more, and responded to John's thought of soldiers and people as two different things; he claimed that soldiers are people, not machines. After Lasky left the observation deck to give the Master Chief space to mourn her death,{{Ref/Reuse|Dead2}} John remembered that Cortana had made a similar quip before the pair left Requiem: ''"Before this is all over, promise me you'll figure out which one of us is the machine."''<ref>'''Halo 4''', ''Epilogue'' cutscene</ref> | ||