“Identify them first!” Xyl slapped the Identify icon on her own arm as she said it. “Don’t ever assume anything is what it looks like on the Net.” She watched the Identify text scrolling by through her visual field. “Netcode. And that snake thing is a passkey. Pretty much standard stuff.” She scooped up the two icons and the remains of the passcode puzzle disappeared in a flash of light. She triggered her nanobot interface and keyed to summon her WorkMate. “Wally!”
A double beep, and the cartoonish construct flashed into existence in front of her, did a complicated tumble and jumped to his feet again. “Boss!”
“Hey, Little Buddy, scan this netcode and tell me what it is.”
Wally took the netcode icon Xyl handed him and turned it in his hands, held it up to sniff it loudly with his short e
