"You did instruct me to bring company. I'm not so silly as to face you completely on my own, whatever you might think."

She glanced sideways as if directing her next comment to the other Refugees. She also took a step or two back, trying to make it look like she was only making her self more easily heard. "I wish I could have dragged the others out here, but I needed them on the other job." It was a bluff, but with any luck it would make Maleficent wonder.