Huh. That was interesting. From the notes she'd compared with the people she was increasingly willing to give some credence to their alternate-universe hypothesis, the meteors weren't optional.

Were some of them locals? Or could the game manifest itself to technologically challenged populations? Some sort of collaborative storytelling, perhaps?

Maybe it was just a difficulty with vocabulary.

"Laptop? You see, there are these little boxes in which electrons go whirling around and in this migratory dance we call the internet, occasionally people talk to each other. Sometimes they even call each other friends."

Not that she knew his number offhand. It was saved on her phone. And her laptop. Obviously.