Booze & Belatedness

Five days of boozing on the beach, and quite a lot of partying and angst in between.. The arrival of a certain apprentice farmcrafter has gone completely unnoticed by most, although some might have stumbled upon the several-dozen empty ale bottles piled next to the remnants of a very large bonfire on the beach. Yep, that might have been hard to miss. The small, daily gatherings of drunken riders and weyrfolk appear to have stopped, finally, though it seems Ista now has a new gardener. If the rumors are true, the girl has been spotted halfway across Pern, from Fort to High Reaches. And now, apparently, a certain weyrleader, who's been known to spoil the girl rotten, is funding a rather interesting project. The man might also nearly have died from having a mattress dropped off a ledge to almost hit him.. but that's all hearsay, really. And it likely has /nothing/ to do with pillows. Nope. Not even large piles of them snuck into empty weyrs. And what's this talk about clearing out an area of the forest? The old aunties have much more interesting gossip, really, so the curious might have to wait and see.