The Rebelliousness of Trassi Udang
First published in the Belong Anthology (Ticonderoga Publications). The ISF-Allion world began with this story. In it, Ari is fifteen and very much still developing into the rascal he turns out to be in Shifting Reality.
Like any fifteen-year old boy, Ari Suleiman Rudiyanto thought he knew everything: how to fool a food dispenser into spitting out double rations, where to get alcohol when under-age and how to get into the docks.
The latter was easy, really. He'd stood at a techno's back while he was keying the code into the door's keypad and he remembered the sequence for later use. Of course he told no one else; that would be stupid, giving away secrets without a trade. And no one had offered him a trade valuable enough to share the code, and with eve
