SEVER ZERO
The audio file ended.
The silence in the server room was absolute, suffocating, and terrifying.
Kara stared at Ren, tears welling in her eyes, her lower lip trembling.
"Ren," Kara choked out, her voice barely a whisper. "Why does the Scourge NPC speak Swahili? Why does it sound like an old man from the Sector 8 slums begging for his life?"
Ren's mind was fracturing. The reality of the situation was violently slamming against the reinforced walls of the denial he had built around himself.