"It was, yes! I was glad to be back, but I'd missed so much! And just when I was starting to catch up, I end up here. Well, not here here, but you know what I mean." She wonders if the Ingress would have picked her up if she'd been anywhere else but Nepal. Maybe if she'd stayed in Hollywood, or had joined Winston at Watchpoint: Gibraltar, she wouldn't have been taken. But there's really no way of knowing.

"I had so many tv shows to catch up on," she says lightly, but there was of course more than that: old friends, the state of the world, what happened with the other Ecopoints. There's a lot that's waiting for her back home.

But right now there are samples to collect. Mei spots the rocky terrain and veers towards it, holding up her lantern to spread more light.

"Here it is! I can collect tiny fragments if there's anything loose. If not, I'll have to bang it with a hammer."