"Not at all," Lafiel replied.  "I've actually had to make do these past couple of years running solo with the sparse ones that I've had, or people who've messaged me privately on ShadowSEA or the Helix about acquiring my particular expertise.  That's part of why I struck up my side business of having a workshop for the, shall we say, discerning runner."  Kanae had seen the electronics shop - Lafiel did work for them on commission, making high-grade cracking equipment for runner teams.  "Having a fixer around to bring me regular work will make my job a lot easier, I won't have to rely so much on my workshop to put it all together."<br/><br/>In fact, if she could manage about, say, three-quarters of the workload in the shop that she had now, plus regular runs once or twice a week at her expense level, she would actually be able to start saving nuyen and maybe even get an upgrade for her non-hacker equipment.  After all, all she needed to do hacking was in her head.  She laughed when she saw the interplay between Ash and Kanae.  "Yeah, that looks<em>very</em>familiar.  Pretty sure that's the only tactic she knows."