Oh there are plenty of maintenance crews that work on the Dekamachines, but I'm still pretty heavily involved in all of that work. And direct assistants in the lab would just do more harm than good, really.

[The woman smiles a bit, screwing two parts back together.]

It's more than enough work looking after the kids I've got, much less any more who'd probably be just as reckless. That seems to be the curse of being part of the Earth Branch.