Lanier recalled when he had personally overseen Ferrera’s extraction from an Aztechnology facility down in Aztlan. That had been a difficult operation, but Lanier believed that gaining the services of a neurophysiologist of Ferrera’s caliber was worth every nuyen spent and every drop of blood shed. The Renraku board and Aneki -sama had personally congratulated Lanier’s coup in acquiring Ferrera’s services. Little did they guess that Lanier had his own plans for the brilliant expert in brain-computer interfaces. She looked up from her work as he approached.