- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I never heard it as a "no", but I heard the grunt/scream the first time I listened to it on my 360 with 5.1, as opposed to just here on the computer.
My thought was that it was Gravemind forcing himself on Cortana, and that was her losing the fight. Then it goes in to the beginning of the first line. The "I" takes a while to get through, like Gravemind is still trying to figure out how to transmit through her. You can even see "pieces" of him; tendril like blue masses while Cortana's face is coalescing. It may even be his control, or lack there of, that causes what everyone is seeing in the random images during the transmission. By the end of the transmission, he has it figured out, and it comes through clearly as Cortana.
"I have defied gods and demons." Gravemind is one old cat that survived the Forerunners and the humans.