Of Falling and Fearing

In the aftermath of Black Panther, Shuri fights to come to terms with seeing her brother fall. Luckily, she doesn't have to do it alone. --“I cannot tell my brother that I see him dying in my dreams -” She exhales finally, her hand going up in the direction of her brain. “Again and again. Nor my mother, nor Nakia, who see the same, I am certain. It is easy during the day, when we are altogether and there is so much to do, but when I close my eyes.” For a moment she is younger than he remembers her being, fierce still, undoubtedly, but bearing a weight too much for her shoulders. A realization that, for the first time, she has been outmatched and out done by the world. It’s a hauntingly familiar look.“So I thought perhaps -”His lip has turned up at one side, humorlessly, but, something in him reaches for her. “I knew a little bit about that?”