“It’ll work, Your Highness, I promise. I just have to work out a few bugs and then it’ll be ready. A week at most.”
Ancou knew he couldn’t put a timetable on fixing the kinds of problems that had popped up with the incubation chamber. The truth of the matter was that the pressure and liquid in the chamber were all wrong, but once he fixed those, he was confident it would work. He should have told her the truth but they were getting close to the deadline and he didn’t want the queen to worry.
Protagonized. 
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