When Maleficent confirmed that her bird companion was well, she nodded - as good as a check on a list. Next - the explanation she'd learned from Peter, as well as she could manage it. She'd begun preparing her answer before Maleficent asked.
"Yes," she said. Then, more carefully: "We and this island have been drawn away from the world where we were. We are now connected to a vast city. It seems that there are different versions of some of us - myself included - and with you as an exception, those who have lived here before have been transported to the City. There, it seems that there have been places prepared specifically for them."