Add a new meeple to a region, and pay food equal to the number of meeples you now have in play. (For example, placing your 4th meeple costs 4 food.) The new meeple must be placed in the same region with another meeple of your color. Since you may never have more than two meeples in any region, if you do not already have a solitary meeple, you may not expand. At the end of the game, you’ll gain 1 VP for each of your meeples in play, except for those in the ruins.