The first thing that Belladonna did once she woke up was send messages to her friends. She had sure to do it completely through the scrying skull, sending it to their Dawd character's inbox rather than routing it through to their irl phones or communicators.
It wasn't that she didn't trust the mega corporations in charge of their communication network. It was that she absolutely did not trust the mega-corps not to spy on every word that she sent and relay it back to Papa Monarch and his cult of weirdly powerful weaklings.
The Scrying Skull, even if it somehow connected to their phones in some way that she could not yet understand, it still operated on a different network. One that still might be being used for spying, but at least it wouldn't get back to the third monarch man, which was the important part.
Her message was concise,
