He's a friend of Kamille's, so Doctor Zero agreed to meet him automatically. He's not the first war hero she's met, but she can't surpress a small surge of pride that the White Devil might need something from her, her own feelings towards the Federation notwithstanding. She looks up at him.

"Ah, before we continue, I should delineate the limits of my knowledge. As a Surgeon-Mechanic, my expertise is limited to the specialized field of machine interface with living and...dead tissue. So my apologies in advance for any questions I can't answer."

That's about as delicately as she can spell out what a Stalker is.