Sly nodded. It was well-known in certain circles that Theresa Smeland frequently took promising young deckers under her wing, and taught them what they needed to know to survive in the biz. Shared with them the technical skill and the professional world view she’d developed over her long career. Some people claimed that Smeland had connections with organized crime, that she was a recruiter who turned over her most promising "proteges" to the Mafia dogs. But Sly had never seen the slightest bit of evidence to support this accusation.