"They would not have reason to tell me anything. I am not generally involved with efforts at diplomacy." With her abrupt manner, that's certainly hard to believe. Though really it's a combination of that and her obvious Borg appearance. Not that she has many implants left, but everyone knows where they're from.

She doesn't address his exclamation of familiarity, but she feels it too, like a ghost of perception on the edge of her senses. Captain Picard's memories still exist in the Collective's consciousness after all, and thus in her, though not easily accessible and hardly complete.