It is late, but only a little late, and besides she is far too excited from the first real trial of the remote driving system to sleep yet, although she had taken pity on Sergeant Barnes and stopped asking him to help her test things half an hour ago. He had been having fun, she believes, but he is still recovering whether he thinks he is or not and she does not want him to overdo.

She has the music turned up in the lab and is dancing from foot to foot as she throws new ideas up into the holographic model. When the call comes through and interrupts the visualization to display an image of her brother instead, Shuri lets out a loud exasperated noise and sticks her tongue out at him.

"Brother! I was designing!" But even as she says it, a closer look at his grave expression and the fact that he is still wearing the Panther habit causes her annoyance to vanish. Shuri waves her hand at the controller and the music goes silent.

"What has happened? What is wrong?"