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She never expected to grow accustomed to this new life, but it became ordinary just like all of her previous lives. She adjusted to college and meager employment and going to an office every day and raucous startup life and then unemployment. Each radically different schedule felt inevitable after a few weeks; this was no different. The disorientation of the first days faded quickly into an unsettling sameness, each day just rolling by.
The routine became ever more normal and she became less self-conscious about the constant watching with each passing hour. Even the gentle motion of the town at high tide felt common, expected; it would have been strange to live without the floor ever rocking or bobbing on the waves. She began to understand how Everest could be so dismissive of everyth
