"It's...it's malfunctioning..." Mellie bites her lip and looks around at the three people around her, all of whom seem more equipped than she is, except perhaps the man with the hood, who seems to be reacting to that shrieking sound with a very understandable 'oh god why' reaction until that one guy magics silence on in.

"It's fighting itself..."

The child in her arms starts to scream and cry. Mellie holds her closer and strokes her hair. "It's okay, no one's going to hurt-"

And then Mellie stops existing behind the eyes.

Her expression goes blank. The child in her arms continues to wail. Mellie's jaw goes slack, lips numb but no awareness behind them to realize it. And then she looks up at the robot, stiffened now by Sirius' spell, and asks,

"Are you saying..."