v2 nodded, and spoke specifically to Lucy. "Please sit down."

He waited until she did so, then continued. "I imagine you have wondered at some point who the most important person in the world is. The answer is you. Please do not mistake this for gravitas or flattery. I do not engage in either. What I have just stated is objective fact, to the best of my understanding. Everything that I am about to say is."

Then he began to speak at length, bluntly and with no personal embellishment. Just the facts. The Empire, the Princesses, the Seekers, the Heartless, the Worlds, all that he understood about the nature and severity of the situation she now found herself in. He went into detail about the parts of the battle he had witnessed in France, specifically noting about he power displayed by the Seekers and their ability to appear from nowhere. He told her about the special accommodations the Empire had made for Adelle, her family, and for him personally so that he could be here. He told he about the briefing and of what even now was going on in Germany and Russia. If he did not say it, it was not something that he knew. There was no point in holding anything back when asking someone to take on so important a task.