The icon that represented Theresa Smeland in the Matrix—a large, anthropomorphic armadillo with T.S.’s dark, intelligent eyes—blinked into existence beside her. For an instant, Sly wondered what her own icon looked like. Obviously not the familiar quicksilver dragon, the shape she had formerly used to run the Matrix. Now her icon would be whatever Smeland’s protege had programmed into the deck’s master persona control program—its MPCP. Well, it didn’t really matter anyway. What a decker’s icon looked like didn’t make any difference to his or her performance—except, perhaps, psychologically.