"Great choice," Adia says when Paladin is done selecting her username, not at all patronizing. "People will recognize that it's you emailing them. You need to pick a password now. The trick isn't making it too difficult for others to guess, but too difficult for you to remember later. My trick is to think of a sentence and then use the first letter of each word, so that the password itself is nonsense to anyone else."

"I would expect nothing less," she replies with equal amusement. "Do you have a favorite game? I know how to play Triad, but I'm not very good at it. I'm bad at bluffing, and when I get a good hand, everyone knows it."