[ What is apparating why are you inventing words. ]

Do you happen to know who she was paired up with?

[ Because he's looking for clues. ]

My guess would be it thought it could dissuade with winding them in circles last time. You go out map making and all your maps are useless, why bother doing it again? It's either pissed they didn't back off, or they've gone too far. Maybe going out there again weakened it.

Maybe this response to Shepard means its underestimated us, and this is some desperate attempt to prove itself. The best thing about desperation, though, is that it means mistakes. We might nail it this time.

[ Seriously. Creepy obvious come hither messages? Unless revealing itself that way is intentional. Double jeopardy. That would really suck. ]