“I think we know barely anything, and I can’t decide if that puts us in more or less danger from the people who sent us here. Also...” They sigh. “I happen to know that the Heptarchate, at least in my time, has about as much knowledge about the rebellion’s modus operandi as any of us except you and Ashari. Because I got the information from captured heretics myself. Before I defected, obviously.” That makes it sound like they had a larger role than they did (they were just one member of a large task force) but whatever. “And none of the scraps of information we got ever led anywhere.”
I think they have different areas of paranoia expertise, but probably Mishka’s got them both beat