Grandmother’s system was crashing, from the combined effects of the third samurai’s uninterrupted destructive efforts and the side effects of Morgan’s engagement with the first two. Alerted by the real-world effects of the Matrix events, one of Grandmother’s guardian deckers materialized in the system. Dodger recognized the chrome spider icon of the decker he knew as Matrixcrawler. Though he’d known the man’s work for years and even met him at the virtual club Syberspace, he had never guessed that Crawler might be an agent of Spider. The icon and street name were not unnatural choices, and Dodger understood now their mocking significance.