Friendly advice-- [Cortana takes another sip as though he hadn't said anything at all about it] --nobody likes a killjoy, and your authority as a Legionnaire doesn't extend to enforcing laws that don't exist in this jurisdiction. Keep playing stupid dominance games, and you'll stop having any authority at all.

[Cortana does like America, despite America's deep-seated killjoy tendencies, and this guy is America's colleague twice over. Maybe she can spare everyone yet another tedious shouting match over the network. Or maybe not--some people need to touch a live wire a few times to realize electric current hurts like hell. Far be it from her to meddle in the learning process, at least when it doesn't inconvenience her personally.]

And "AI" is more accurate than "droid."

[Getting to the important part, as far as she's concerned.]