[She sighs, but she can't really be annoyed with Letty for asking. She'd brought it up.

Also, it's not like she objects to gossiping about people who aren't here.]

There's a colony port that some of the ships I used to work on use, on a planet where they've got these animals... we call them tripworms? Maybe eight or ten inches long, soft-bodied, secrete a mildly hallucinogenic substance when distressed. Like, for instance, when being handled by a troll. Honestly, I think they'd probably be in wider use but as far as I know no one's managed to breed them off-planet and the stupid things tend to die of shock if you take them into space.

Anyway, topically, they're pretty harmless, and the toxin denatures too fast in a troll's digestive system for eating them to have any effect.

So obviously some idiot on shore leave had to find a different orifice to shove one in.