"Ill-timed apocalypse." It's almost blithe, and not quite a lie but an omission of certain other details that she's ordinarily more forthcoming about. She just doesn't quite have the energy this week, not for her usual more aggressively straightforwardness about Prometheus. It's never something easy to talk about, but right now--

--now just isn't the time.

"Baedal seems to mostly choose people who can handle it."

This doesn't mean anything good about why they're here, she thinks, but it is at least a potentially reassuring thought in terms of adaptation.