Skater was still nervous about the run despite all their precautions and all the planning they’d squeezed into the past few days. But the bottom line was that they all needed the score. Living in the shadows, in between the cracks of society without selling out to the Mafia or yakuza or the corps, was expensive even if a man or woman or meta lived alone and was responsible only for his or her own hoop. Now, though, Skater had Emma to figure into his personal equation of survival too. It made things harder in some ways, and easier in others.