'Bast...' Shuri whispered. 'Time is running out. Please allow me to heal my brother of this illness, and I will never question your existence again.' The doors to the lab slid open, and she stepped inside hurriedly. 'His heart rate is dropping fast!' she called out. 'Where are we?'
'We are finishing a sequence now,' one of the lab workers said, rushing past her.
'GRIOT, give me the controls,' Shuri exclaimed.
'As you wish, Princess,' the AI voice replied. She pulled up a DNA strand and pulled out one of the glowing white balls, trying to move them around. She put the white ball in another spot.
'What is the confidence rate?' she asked.
'25%,' the AI replied. Her face filled with agony. She switched some more of the white balls frantically.
'We have to try another way.'
'King T'Challa's heart rate has fallen to 31 beats per minute,' the AI said.
'Princess, you should go be by his side,' the lab worker urged.
'I need to think. Everyone, get out.' When no one responded, she turned around with panic in her eyes. 'Get out!' she screamed. They all left in a hurry, leaving her be in the expansive lab. She put the ball into another part of the DNA sequence. 'What is the confidence rate?'
'29.1%,' the AI replied.
'Print it.' She rushed over to the printing machine as the AI machine attempted to warn her.
'Princess, I am aware of the urgency, but I must warn you, this synthetic heart-shaped herb has a minimal chance of producing the desired effects.'
'I don't care! It has to work.' The machine finished printing the herb, and as she picked it up in her hands, taking it to the entrance of her lab, the Queen Mother, Ramonda, entered the room, her eyes glassy with tears. Shuri stood there in stunned silence.
'GRIOT?' she asked softly. 'What's my brother's heart rate?' The AI didn't reply.
'Your brother... is with the ancestors,' Ramonda said softly. Shuri looked down at the herb with a soft gasp, and tears sprang, unbidden, to her eyes.
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