T'Challa hesitates, and knows that in doing so he has already answered the question.

"I will not lie to you," he says, quietly. "It is severe. Enough that we felt it necessary to bring her with us to Wakanda."

To leave her, he knows, would have been a death sentence. He does not wish to speak the words aloud to this man, already so worried. "We will help her. I promise you this. Shuri is already preparing for our arrival."