"Right, you ugly bastard, whoever you are," she said to her empty apartment. "I’m coming back with some armor and defenses that’ll make even you think twice." But when she gingerly reentered the Matrix and tracked the SAN into which the figure had vanished, her child persona drew back suddenly. It was the entrance to the Transys Neuronet system. No way! Her resolve evaporated as fast as it had formed. She didn’t intend to go headlong into the system of the most paranoid and dangerous cyber-research corporation in Britain.