At exactly 11:03:01:47:14:29, a yellow dot appears on the dataline directly in front of her face and unfolds like a blossom of light into a twelve-sided polyhedron that shimmers like it's made of mirrors. In fact it's a teleporting SAN—system access node—that appears and disappears around the grid according to a time schedule defined by a very secret algorithm, one Neona's still trying to scope out.