"And you did the right thing by helping her." She says it evenly, without emphasis and without room to argue—a tone that makes the statement sound less like a moral opinion than an objective fact.
As for the rest of it...
"I can't tell you how to do that when you don't know who they are or what they want. It might be as easy as agreeing to a meeting. On the other hand, you might have to be persuasive. Either way, the worst that's going to happen is that they'll try to make good on their bluff and end up with a few pictures no one will believe in a tabloid people only read to scoff at. Maybe she sells the video to the kind of people who go looking for mermaids and yetis." She raises an eyebrow to show how intimidating she finds that particular outcome. "Not exactly the end of the world."
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As for the rest of it...
"I can't tell you how to do that when you don't know who they are or what they want. It might be as easy as agreeing to a meeting. On the other hand, you might have to be persuasive. Either way, the worst that's going to happen is that they'll try to make good on their bluff and end up with a few pictures no one will believe in a tabloid people only read to scoff at. Maybe she sells the video to the kind of people who go looking for mermaids and yetis." She raises an eyebrow to show how intimidating she finds that particular outcome. "Not exactly the end of the world."