He stays silent. The words don't evoke a reaction in him. Instead, he takes a deep breath noticeable even inside of his armor.

"I don't have the right to say who should she love."

John loved Ami. There was no doubt about it. She had every trait he admired in a person - in many of his personal dreams, he saw her in the same place as Cortana, Halsey, and his first mother. But there was a difference: He loved her as a daughter, and even he know of the mortality Mercury was devoid of.

"But I'm worried for her. I won't be there for her forever."