"No, not the mafia. Crime syndicates are clients, sometimes, but that's it. Runners are free." That's the ideology, and from what she has observed it is also a necessity - if you stop being free, you stop being a runner very quickly, one way or the other.

"...Yeah." It's obvious anyway, isn't it? "If it isn't a thing here, I'll have to find something else, though." Especially since she has no plan to fall back on, here. At home, she could always just return to being a kitten if things went terribly wrong, until Chantalle dies one day, anyway. Not that she would want to by any means, being human gives you so many more things to do, but the option would be there. Here, she has to figure out food and shelter and all that all by herself.