he who hesitates is toast

She doesn't bother trying to answer Sharon, being far too occupied with working the floor near T'Challa to guard his back while Okoye deals with the men above. It is not her friend's fault; she does not know their history with Klaue, does not know all that this evil man has done. Nakia drops two of them, plants her high heel in the face of a third, and takes out the fourth that the General drops on her like a goddess from on high with a well-placed throat smash.

Klaue attempts to flee up the steps, and T'Challa goes after him, leaping to catch the balcony railing and flipping over it to confront him. Soon this will be over, Nakia thinks -- and then Klaue raises his arm and fires a blast from some sort of weapon.

As T'Challa is flung back through the air to land on the table a floor below, Nakia runs up the steps after Klaue.