Chapter sevenPepper –
Do you remember that kid that Auri and I fragged on the Net back when I first hooked up with you guys? Ten years old, but he’d customized his Persona to be adult-sized. And he acted as old as Auri and me, at least on the Net. He conned Auri into giving him Azim’s commcode, then spidered it until he found the netcode. It wasn’t until after I’d AcidSlided the kid that I found out he was only ten, and that his parents had managed to get him to a medcenter in time to stop the hemorrhaging.
The point is, I sometimes forget that what you see is not necessarily what you get on the Net.
We are what we choose to be, not what we have no choice but to be. It’s a freedom that people take for granted, a world based ultimately on wishful thinking. A world where if you don’t like
