The transition took Chase by surprise. Whenever hard core deckers were involved, he always expected a sudden and spectacular interface sequence as the simsense signal overrode his own sensory data and pulled him into the artificial, virtual reality of the Matrix. He wasn't ready, however, to see the young red-haired boy's head become a neon sand sculpture whose molecular adhesion was suddenly lost. Nor was he ready to see every person in the room, and the room itself, explode into particles of light in the same manner.