The Johnson's features knit together for a brief moment before she began to speak, slowly this time as if she were picking her words very carefully. "My,<em>division</em>is in fairly frequent need of operators with a diverse skill-set," she explains, "and past ventures have demonstrated that it is cheaper to assemble and field a dedicated team than it is to cobble something together every time. In this team is represented every skill set I feel is necessary for the kind of work that my division would require of it. I am not prepared to hand anything even remotely sensitive to untested runners, however."<br/><br/>Smiling in an eerily emotionless manner she gave Rhiannon a slow, almost sensual shrug. "And so something of a shakedown is in order. We give you a milk run, and pay you enough to cover most of your expenses. If you can't accomplish this mission within the budget and parameters we specify, well then you obviously aren't the people we need."