"You might be surprised how often that works," she said with a
smile. "But no, most of them have a little more criminal experience
than you."
"So did you, like, go to the local thief's market and start
recruiting? Or is there a chat room or something where you all hang
out and sharpen your digital knives?"
"I think you're great and all Paul. Don't get me wrong. But if
the others heard you asking too many questions like this, they
might take it the wrong way. You're still an unknown quantity to
them and they - well, me too I guess - we're all kind of guarded
about our own history."
"Oh man," said Paul. "I'm sorry. I should've realized. It's
just, well, this is all so weird for me."
"Chill. It's cool. I'm not mad or anything. I'm just giving you
a little advice by way of prefac
