Did she trust him, though? If nothing else, that question cut Sevika off from arguing further about who's Zaun earned that seat and what Vander had or hadn't planned. She knew she had her reasons for capitulating once she'd been called out by him — that she'd been holding something back, something mysterious. However, she had hardly fought to deny it. It earned a moment of silence apart from her footsteps a few paces behind him while she considered how to explain.

"I don't trust you," she decided to begin with that outright. "But if you already had an idea that I was keeping information from all of you, what I could trust was for you to cause problems for me."

Specifically with him.

Him who? Silco. All it would take was even the vaguest suggestion that she was keeping something from him, even if that suggestion came from the man he hated most, and he'd spiral into paranoia. It would have made working with him unbearable, perhaps even dangerous, all for what? All for her deep fear of how he might react to the news?