It occurred to her, then, that all she needed to do was switch on her tablet’s connection to the mesh network. Shortly after New Caird ’s departure from Izzy, she had turned it off because, once they got out of range, it was a useless battery drainer. And indeed the tablet soon brought up the little icon announcing it had found a connection, perhaps relayed through one of those Flivvers. A minute or two went by as the device downloaded all of the email and message traffic that had been piling up in her inbox during her "vacation."