Understandable. Preparing for the Null and those who might help them would be a higher priority. I suspect I may not be the only person who pretended to be cooperative in order to gain further information from the Null, but I have no idea who was sincere versus who was pretending.

[Well, she can think of one person who'd be sincere, but she's confident in her ability to talk him down.]

On that topic, how do you plan on handling the matter of people who are sincerely willing to help the Null? Obviously you want to protect yourselves, but being too heavy-handed about the consequences would be unwise.