The last week had changed her and now she must change back. For the most part she’d been offline, so she set about restoring her own default settings, scrolling through her old websites and social media. Deep-sea divers returning to the surface have to acclimatise to their old environment, and this is how the internet felt, absorbing the fights and feuds she’d missed, the rage and the predictions of the world’s end until she got the old feeling back, tension tightening her shoulders, all sense of pastoral well-being gone.
