SHIGEKO'S DOSSIER: Watchful's patroness is the fearsome Soshi Seiryoku herself. No one who works for her has ever been caught in illegal dealing (though there have been a suspicious number of "accidental deaths" each time suspicion has fallen on her enterprises). She is a nervous mouse of a woman whose dread of her mistress outweighs even the threat of torture.
My suspicions of her mistress make me feel that there is something dirty in her dealings, but I have been unable to prove anything.
In fear for her life, she provided the Emerald Magistrates with a detailed accounting of the workings of the Soshi Cartel. In exchange for this she was granted a travel pass to the Phoenix provinces with her stated goal being to retire to a monastery there and seek redemption.