More to the point, nobody hassled her. She knew that most of the patrons simply discounted her as a "null-head," a non-decker . . . and something of a fossil. Those few, like Theresa Smeland, who knew Sly and her background also knew enough not to discuss it, not to raise disturbing ghosts. If she wanted to hang with deckers even though she didn’t punch deck herself anymore, that was wiz with them.