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WHAT in person
WHERE the... cemetery?
WHEN day ""136""

[somewhere in cam... cour... uh, qm, there appears to be a new plot of land—some overgrown with weeds and other weed-adjacent plants, and some with towering oak trees and the like, and some with just perfect patches of freshly mowed and manicured grass...

also

there are tombstones every scattered all over this area, with the name of your father or father-figure on them, regardless of whether or not they are here or dead or here-dead.

yeeeeesh.]

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I don't mind at all.

Thanks.

[ He turns his head back towards the stones. ]

My dad, he died when I was pretty young. Like nine or ten. That was when New York got invaded for the first time.

Loki's army. ...I'm sorry.

Yeah. It’s... y’know. I lost both my parents in the invasion. Lots of people lost more.

...you seem like you're good at focusing on other people. And on what you're lucky to have.

Well - yeah. You go crazy otherwise.

Right??

[bumps her shoulder against his]

[ He smiles at her, grateful for the gesture. ]

You know how it is, huh?

I think these days it's fair to say that I do.

Yeahhh ... yeah, no kidding. Like this Thanos stuff. New York really doesn't need another alien invasion.

I'd say Wakanda doesn't either, but honestly, at least if Thanos came back it would save me finding him.

-- Wakanda got invaded by Thanos?

Captain Rogers brought Vision to me to see if I could remove the mind stone, to destroy it without destroying him. So Thanos sent his army. And then he came himself.

[ A full body shiver at that. ]

I didn't know. I mean I knew he left at the end and he must have gotten the mind stone but --

[finds his hand and squeezes it]

...I'm sorry. I couldn't do it in time.

[ He squeezes back, gently. ]

It's okay. We all tried to get the gauntlet off, but obviously that didn't work.

...

[takes a breath]

Well. I'll just have to figure out a way to track him down and help the remaining Avengers steal it from him so we can take him down and reverse what he did. No big deal.

[that last sentence uh. is definitely obviously a joke. but the rest of it doesn't seem to be.]

[ It gets a laugh out of him, which is probably the intended effect. ]

That's what Cap says too. And Tony. All of them. But I'm more willing to believe you.

That's just good judgement.

Right? Don't get me wrong, Cap is amazing. But I think you might actually get it done.

I promise I will. No matter what.

[ That. Actually makes him relax a little. And duck his head. ]

Thanks, Shuri.

[squeezes his hand one more time before letting go]

But when it's all over and you're back home, you have to show me around New York, okay?

Definitely. I'll take you to all the best spots. Not just the touristy stuff.

Perfect. Then it's settled.