Letter #142: Mr. Plankton
Good morning, Erin. “Don’t make a girl a promise you can’t keep…” Cortana says that to Master Chief in Halo 4 . …the video game. I’m assuming you’ve heard of it. (You have, right? It’s very popular. The game series, I mean. Or it was. I don’t think it’s done well, lately.) I never had any real interest in the Halo series, back when I was gaming all the time. But I’d heard some buzz about the story for Halo 4 , so I watched some of the cutscenes on YouTube, wondering if maybe this would be the one that finally grabbed my attention. It was. Not because of the quality of the animation or the danger presented by the antagonists—just that one line. Well, okay, it was the whole scene, but it’s really that line that brings the whole thing together: Cortana tells Master Chief that she’s dying…and he refuses to accept that there’s nothing he can do to stop it, telling her her will get her to the one person in the universe who will know how to fix her—and Cortana, sad and afraid, tells him...