[ good question. she'd certainly tried longer ones, to explain the whole situation -- but it'd timed her out, leaving her frustrated. but going too short... ]

That's a start. "It's all shut off. We're okay, for now." Something like that? We can't promise that we'll be okay the whole time we're here, when we don't even know how long they'll be keeping us, but... I think it'd reassure them to know that the ones who went missing are accounted for.