[ She's glad that she knows, as awful as the news may be. The fact that Lucina is still here means that she's strong... though it isn't as though she didn't know that to begin with. Lucina is Something Else. ] You need not thank me for something like that.

[ Either way, she goes back to holding Lucina's hands again after, needing to do something to aid her when her nerves are going out of control. ]

What happened...? [ There's a lot of things she could answer to that, and the brief pause is a hint towards that, but she pushes on. ] To say it simply... "despair". Despair became a disease that swept across the world.