Jason didn’t linger too long on thoughts about Jackie’s true history. Considering how many salacious rumors about her made the round in the shadowrunner community, chances were that she herself was planting them to make her better known and more attractive… both to prospective employers<strong>and</strong>prospective partners. In this day and age, if you wanted your fifteen minutes of slut-fame, it took much more than a topless picture making the rounds in the matrix.<br/><br/>He<em>did</em>linger a bit longer on the personnel files, Mr. Garribaldi had provided, though.<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button"> candidates</div><div class="spoiler_body">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/4/4d/Secretary_1.jpg)<br/><br/>(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/c/c9/Secretary_2.jpg)<br/><br/>(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/0/04/Secretary_3.jpg)<br/></div></div>Looks weren’t everything, of course, but he<em>did</em>intent to replace the awful, artificial chrysanthemum at the door with something that was truly pleasing to the eye. And a woman who would share the workday with him picked his interest more than the sordid tales of some shadowrunning whore. Of course, he wouldn’t mind sampling Jackie’s wares, but he wouldn’t chase her like the drooling, mindless fools who trolled the Shadowland BBS. Their meeting tonight was all-business.<br/><br/>Besides, if everything went well, they wouldn’t even exchange a single word. She was there as his incognito scout and backup, the extra gun that the opposition wouldn’t see coming. But he was still hoping that he would not need her. If Gunderson had gotten wind of his defection, even if he escaped the trap they would lay for him, his keys and quite a bit of his insider knowledge would be as fresh and exciting as yesterday’s barely legals.<br/>