Nearby, some kitchen workers are gossiping.
“You won’t believe what I heard!” one of them said, eyes wide with intrigue. “I was talking to a girl who lives over in the weyrfolk hall…She said her friend saw some people burning garbage in the middle of the night one night. She thought it was weird, so she went back later and found a scrap of paper that hadn’t burned all the way…she said it was a report someone turned in. Said they found a clipped Tansy plant with footprints around it! ‘Petite’ footprints.”
“No way,” the other man says. “She’s just looking for attention. Did she keep it or anything?”
“No, she said she was too scared. Do you think someone out there is really destroying evidence?!”
“That’s nuts. If she can’t prove it, she’s lying.”
“Yeah, probably…She couldn’t even say what kind of people they were. Men or women or whatever..so no real detail…”