Juno Citlali doesn't investigate cases the way other PIs do. She doesn't chase data or neural trails or physical evidence. She chases debts — the invisible web of obligations, favors, and social contracts that binds the people of GLMZ's lower tiers into a functional community in the absence of institutional support.

In a city where CorpSec serves corporate interests and formal justice is a luxury of the upper tiers, the lower tiers have developed their own systems of order. Wanjiku sits at the center of one such system — a vast, informal network of mutual obligation that she has spent thirty years cultivating. She has helped people find jobs, settle disputes, secure housing, obtain medical care, and navigate bureaucracy, and every act of help creates a debt. Not a financial debt — a social one. And when Wanjiku needs information, access, or assistance for an investigation, she calls in those debts with the precision of a banker calling in loans.

Her method is uniquely effective for lower-tier investigations because it operates entirely within the trust economy that these communities have built for themselves. Her informants aren't paid — they're repaying kindness. Her access isn't purchased — it's earned. And her investigations don't disrupt the community fabric because she is the community fabric. She is simultaneously an investigator, a mediator, a counselor, and an informal judge, and the people who live in her territory understand that keeping Wanjiku happy is essential to keeping their community functional.