Vivienne's POV
The city received us the way cities received people who had been away for ten days while something involving their name and their money and a pregnancy claim attached to a man in a waiter's apron had been moving through its attention.
Which is to say it received us without any visible acknowledgment whatsoever because cities did not actually care about individual stories regardless of how consuming those stories felt from the inside.
But the internet was not the city.
And the internet had opinions.
....
I had looked at my phone properly on the flight home.
Not for long. Long enough to understand the shape of what had happened to the story while we were gone. The article had spread in the first two days and then been picked up by larger publications and then the specif
