Okay, granted, Seattle isn’t one of the garden spots of the universe, but have you visited Milwaukee lately? "A Great City on a Great Lake," according to the Chamber of Commerce, but in reality it’s a great place to get geeked on a great toxic waste dump. But people do relocate. Hell, take Cat Ashburton, the pneumatic redhead from my meet at the kissaten. She got transferred from Milwaukee to Seattle. Sure, she’s part of Lone Star and thus is no risk to me, but her transfer was totally independent of any assignment of mine, and that makes her—for the purposes of my catastrophizing, at least just another megacorp wage slave. And if one megacorp wage slave can get bumped to the West Coast, why not another? And just as easily someone who knew me while I was going through the Lone Star Academy, before I found my way into deep-cover work.