Alyssa D'Yaragen is just an elf trying to make ends meet.
Thankfully, working as a freelance thief - a runner by the street name Lysistrata-pays more than she would make in a month selling cell phones to retropunks at her antique shop.
Though she's low-tech, she has an advantage over her fellow larcenists.
She has magic.
Logan Turner, a techie and fellow runner, offers to bring her in on a high paying run stealing data from megacorporation Americorp.
She accepts, partially for the payou.