[Well, he wasn't giving her much to go on. Which meant it was time to ask more questions. And hope that he couldn't breathe fire through the video screen or something crazy like that.]

So... um... are Predaking and Darksteel your friends?

[Starscream clearly was not, and Maya wasn't going to mention him, for fear of getting eaten by the big angry dragon.]

They might not be here. I mean, as far as I can tell, none of my friends ended up here.