SEVER ZERO
"Kara. Drop it. It's just flavor text."
"It's not flavor text," Kara insisted, her fingers flying across her keyboard. She pulled up a massive, complex audio waveform on the center screen. "When it was waving the flag, the game engine generated a localized audio file. To us, inside the immersion pods, it sounded like standard alien shrieking. High-pitched, guttural, heavily distorted. Right?"
"Yes," Ren said slowly, a knot of pure dread forming in his stomach.