Why would nslookup return a response, then timeout?

Here's what my nslookup is doing:

ubuntu@ca:~$ time nslookup focal-250
Server:		127.0.0.53
Address:	127.0.0.53#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:	focal-250.test
Address: 128.8.8.187
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached



real	0m15.024s
user	0m0.005s
sys  	0m0.018s

The first six lines (i.e, the correct response) printed instantly, then it waited 15 seconds to "time out". Something like ping does the same thing: stalls for 15 seconds, then starts working. It's an Ubuntu 20.04 LTS system running systemd-resolved. The only thing weird about it is that it has dnsmasq listening for name service on one of its interfaces, and that interface's address is configured as its own nameserver:

ubuntu@ca:~$ resolvectl 
Global
       LLMNR setting: no                  
MulticastDNS setting: no                  
  DNSOverTLS setting: no                  
      DNSSEC setting: no                  
    DNSSEC supported: no                  
          DNSSEC NTA: 10.in-addr.arpa     
                      16.172.in-addr.arpa 
                      168.192.in-addr.arpa
                      17.172.in-addr.arpa 
                      18.172.in-addr.arpa 
                      19.172.in-addr.arpa 
                      20.172.in-addr.arpa 
                      21.172.in-addr.arpa 
                      22.172.in-addr.arpa 
                      23.172.in-addr.arpa 
                      24.172.in-addr.arpa 
                      25.172.in-addr.arpa 
                      26.172.in-addr.arpa 
                      27.172.in-addr.arpa 
                      28.172.in-addr.arpa 
                      29.172.in-addr.arpa 
                      30.172.in-addr.arpa 
                      31.172.in-addr.arpa 
                      corp                
                      d.f.ip6.arpa        
                      home                
                      internal            
                      intranet            
                      lan                 
                      local               
                      private             
                      test                

Link 3 (ens5)
      Current Scopes: DNS        
DefaultRoute setting: yes        
       LLMNR setting: yes        
MulticastDNS setting: no         
  DNSOverTLS setting: no         
      DNSSEC setting: no         
    DNSSEC supported: no         
  Current DNS Server: 128.8.8.254
         DNS Servers: 128.8.8.254
          DNS Domain: test       

Link 2 (ens4)
      Current Scopes: DNS         
DefaultRoute setting: yes         
       LLMNR setting: yes         
MulticastDNS setting: no          
  DNSOverTLS setting: no          
      DNSSEC setting: no          
    DNSSEC supported: no          
  Current DNS Server: 192.168.1.1 
         DNS Servers: 192.168.1.1 
          DNS Domain: freesoft.org

ubuntu@ca:~$ ip -br addr
lo               UNKNOWN        127.0.0.1/8 ::1/128 
ens4             UP             192.168.4.183/24 fe80::e2c:d2ff:fe67:0/64 
ens5             UP             128.8.8.254/24 fe80::e2c:d2ff:fe67:1/64

ubuntu@ca:~$ tail -5 /etc/dnsmasq.conf 
listen-address=128.8.8.254
bind-interfaces
dhcp-range=128.8.8.101,128.8.8.200,12h
dhcp-authoritative
domain=test

ubuntu@ca:~$ tail -4 /etc/resolv.conf 

nameserver 127.0.0.53
options edns0 trust-ad
search test freesoft.org

It's doing what I want, which is to answer queries for the ".test" domain, but I don't understand why it stalls for 15 seconds after getting the answer.