Seriously, America? Cortana's glad she doesn't have a gag reflex.

"You saw the LL, America, and I was on the Silent Horizon mission. Nothing either of you can come up with is going to rattle me." Cortana brushes her hair back impatiently, then looks up at North, trying to make her expression affectionate rather than businesslike. "Privacy violations aside, it's more a question of the risk to you once you go home. ONI plays for keeps, and I'm too young to be a widow."