What say? is what the communicator translates, questionable grammar and all.

The alien, for his part, perks up to crane his neck off to their immediate left.

"Melia?"

She's already screeching when she squirms her way into the clearing in the crowd. The translator picks it up as "-leave you alone for twenty minutes and you bring down the guards. I needed you to wait for me. Idiot. Idiot!"