"It is. I like it." Fred continued to smile at him. How could she stop smiling? Then there was a pause and a laugh.
"Yes, off the grid. As long as it's your choice, then it could be quite nice, but if it's not your choice, it's very frustrating. You feel all kinds of disconnected and sad and just not with it. Or I did. Sometimes I still do. I got kind of used to not having anything, but now I do, and then I forget - I used my phone the other day as a paperweight for my donut napkins." She tsked softly at herself.
"Do you think the City really is a ruler? Our ruler?"