"Oh, thank you! I may need a little bit of help since I don't want to slow us down once we go through this Gate." It hasn't been easy getting around these last couple of weeks, but Mei has adapted, trying to be useful while she can stay seated. However, the fact that the group has had to keep pushing forward has been rough.

"It did sound like it took people by surprise," she says with a short nod. "It's unlucky that it happened at all to those people."