Taako: “Hold on. Was the seventh object love the whole time? Because I don’t want to have to hoof around for 40 episodes before I find out that it was love the whole time.”
Lucretia, holding the seventh object - her staff - with which she intends to create the only safety she can for her friends while she suffers alone, night after night, having given literal tangible years of her life to protect them and knowing that if they catch on too fast to what she’s doing everything will be ruined and they’ll have no chance of surviving: “… It would be unwise at this time for me to confirm or deny that.”