There were only a few real avenues into Seattle, and a corp with the resources of Fuchi Industrial Electronics could, by flexing only the tiniest bit of its muscle, throw up a net tight enough to catch them. The corp would cover not only Denver, but Phoenix to the south, Minneapolis to the far north, and San Francisco on the west coast, just in case their prey decided to make an end run north around the elven lands of Tir Tairngire. Deckers would have been hired, and tailored computer viruses released into the thousands of computer systems that controlled the transportation hubs of western North America. The word would be out, and the watch on. The team that had shown up in Chase's apartment in Manhattan could certainly qualify as Fuchi-caliber. If the evidence of their training wasn't enough, their possession of a gas-detection system was a clear sign of corporate backing.