It sounds like your friends should be easy to spot.

Wei-- [She wants to say he's back at school, which is sort of true, but she stops herself when she remembers. He's dead--beyond their help and beyond helping them.]

--Everyone I know is back on my island. My mom knows what to do in a typhoon, so I don't think she would've been swept away.

[If she did, what are the chances that they could find her?]