Despite his better judgment, he finds he himself has not truly accepted the outcome of Sharon Carter's mission to Madripoor; he is all too ready to cling to the White Wolf's reasonings.
Even if he did not count her as a friend and trusted ally on her own merit, the part of him that would stop at nothing to assuage Nakia's pain and grief is much too eager to call this vanishingly small chance a real possibility. "Shuri," he says, sharply, and looks at her.
"Four more minutes," she says, and he shakes his head.
"You have one. Tell me you've found something. Anything."
The smallest flaw or slightest inconsistency in the recording. Anything at all to give him the excuse, to call this a mission and not just the rationalization of a grieving man.
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Even if he did not count her as a friend and trusted ally on her own merit, the part of him that would stop at nothing to assuage Nakia's pain and grief is much too eager to call this vanishingly small chance a real possibility. "Shuri," he says, sharply, and looks at her.
"Four more minutes," she says, and he shakes his head.
"You have one. Tell me you've found something. Anything."
The smallest flaw or slightest inconsistency in the recording. Anything at all to give him the excuse, to call this a mission and not just the rationalization of a grieving man.