"In a hurry to leave?  Well, guess we were done talking now weren't we?" she elf said as he stood up, flattened his suit back out over his form, and then bowed (slightly, as if little more than a formality), and without a word worked his way back through the crowd and left...<br/><br/>"Friendly, isn't he?" the dark skinned woman said with a chuckle as they both stood "Ane we can leave... did you walk or drive?  I walked here myself... I could ride with you if you don't mind?  Though... not to the Bay yet, preferably somewhere with a free access node that we can use for research first... you didn't actually plan on going there without observing and planning a way in did you?"<br/><br/>Assuming Alice was willing, they'd be in her Sedan driving in no time it would seem, to wherever Alice knew to find a good Free Matrix Node, or a 'Public' Node as it were.  Luckily there was a small pub in Stanley not far from Alice's home that had a decent node that the encryption was good on... but that everybody knew was long-since cracked wide open to be 'public' access at this point.  Luckily the owner of the pub didn't bother - or perhaps didn't care - to change the encryption, hell, the password to the node and the Admin account even is carved into the bar even!  Definitely a place for anonymous access...