"Every few weeks or so?" the woman says, and the man nods. "Yeah, rarely more than once a month. They never really specify what they want, just a bit of everything. Rumors and stories and details about daily life." "Meetings come at random, we go out every week on the fifth day. If he's there, we talk. If he's not, we don't, and go straight home." "He never asks for anything in particular. Might ask a few followup questions, but always waits for us to offer what we've found, then pays us for it, if he likes what he hears."