I've heard of people coming and going, yeah, but not like this. You're right though. Anyone could step in and take someone and it could be blamed on Jones. Which is why I don't like to trust that someone just up and got sent home. I want to be sure about it before I pass it off as one of Jones' tricks.

[The Frog Prince was pretty good at catching tone and sound from people like her. She, who could be a he, enjoyed chatting up the upperclass, and she'd do a lot more of it... if she wasn't in such a bad mood.]

If it were that simple, why bother looking for the shards at all? Why send people home when you need them to find things?