Wolves at the Palace Gate

When the crew came to remove the bamboo and trim the elm tree in the backyard, I went over to the Palace and knocked. After waiting sometime I rang the doorbell and waited some more but nobody came to the door. Which I thought strange, knowing there is always someone inside. I thought I heard someone rustling about too but no answer.  I was there to inform them that the tree trimmers would remove any debris from the elm tree that fell on their side, if that was okay.

After the tree was trimmed, one of the crew jumped the fence and began to rake up debris. He threw it over to our side and put it in the truck they had to haul the debris away, it was then that Daddy emerged demanding that they come back and remove more debris. He let them in by way of the Palace's back gate. 

Whatever, I thought and wondered why he didn't answer the door when I was there. I have noticed though, that the Palace had been unusually quiet and at night, dark, no lights of any kind, except for an occasional dim light in the kitchen area. Not that that is strange, they never put on many lights at any time but they would turn on a porch light to take trash from the Palace to the bin at night. And there was always the smell of clothes being dried, just about every day. That had stopped as well.

Yesterday, Sunday, a truck with the city logo for Water & Power pulled up in front of our house. I thought, oh fuck, there must be a leak in the street and their going to start digging but they didn't. One man stood by the side of the truck while the other went to the Palace's curbside where he quickly turned off the water that goes to the Palace, then they both left soon after.

Mean Queen and Daddy have not paid the utility bill for Water & Power. What dire straits they are in now, with no running water to flush toilets or clean with. And what else has gone unpaid when they won't come to their Palace gate?

I would send Great Horned Owl with the camera for a brain to fly high above and investigate this further but he has been destroyed. A tragedy befell him while on his perch overlooking the garden when the crew came to remove the bamboo. His great plastic head was broken on a stake of bamboo and his camera brain broken. He can fly no more to investigate these things for me.

Hag has been out with all the activity in the alley and so has Drag Queen, though Drag goes in the alley to see if anyone will complement her new tits, not that she is interested in the activities outside herself. Hag said I should befriend the squirrel that lives between us and the Palace. This is impossible, for Millie will not tolerate friendships with squirrels and so I have asked Millie to spy on what goes on at the Palace but from a safe distance. She's thinking it over.

Today, Mean Queen left in her tight skirt that shows her egg laying thighs at their best. Daddy is still there and so are the their younger subjects. Will they bring water back and electricity? So far there is no sign of either.