She had to make a decision.
Taking a risk, or taking a bigger risk, and she had no idea which one was the larger one, since she had so often ended up in huge trouble after following Daniel's orders precisely. She did not actually have any kind of an idea of an example she could have used in an argument to prove her point about him giving consistently bad advice, but she was pretty much sure that she had received better orders from literal godsdamned frogs, and frogs did not talk, which made the evidence of this hypothetical scenario all the more damning for Daniel, who was so proud of his supposed anti-heroic wisdom.
