"That’s when you started in the shadows," Duran guessed. Skater nodded. "Mainly boosting. Then I used my mom’s connections to pass off the goods and get whatever nuyen I could. One day I came home, found a group of Dissemblers in the doss. They’d already geeked my mother. Later I found out it was over money. She’d shorted them on a credstick." He left out the part about how he’d rescued Kestrel, maintaining some of the distance between then and now. "I tracked down the gangers responsible over the next year. It didn’t happen easy. I learned how to geek someone quick, in the heat of the dust-up, and I learned how to geek someone cold, once I knew it had to be done."