The harsh grating cut through her sensitive ears, made worse by her apparent illness. She winced, even as her mind sought to understand the words. Binary, and she didn't know nearly enough to translate it. It was a dead language, used only for the most basic of programming, and she could only--

The girl squinted her eyes in concentration. The only thing able to be translated was the part that was repeating, simple and to the point. "...Dead," she said, seemingly out of nowhere to his query. "It's saying that someone is dead." The rest was beyond her abilities to make out.