It is an unusually cold day in My Kingdom today.... I have nothing to do except take selfies to post on my fabulous Instagram.
Oh, yes and write in this diary... You know, dear diary, I don't really like keeping a diary where you're only supposed to write true things... So don't be surprised if I write things that are not 100% true... But I'll keep all my 'lies' as close to the truth as possible.
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(this part is written one day after the text above, early in the morning before light)
So, I'm sitting in the dark, spooky nesting box of the Haunted Henhouse, typing on my mini-laptop.
I didn't write since yesterday morning, but nothing interesting has happened during that day, except some heavy rain and having a warm layers' pallets mash lunch and supper.
Well, here's the story of last evening:
As it began to get dark, my sisters and I took our grit, which was slightly soggy from the rain, and headed to the coop.
Suddenly, we heard the humans' back door open, and the mother human stepped out.
She boarded up the windows of the Haunted Henhouse (which were more like doors to us) with a yellow cloth-like thing, and some board and bricks.
Then she disappeared back into the Human House.
"Th-that was... Odd." said Strelitzia, shivering in the icy cold air.
I nodded. Protea said briskly, "Come on, Your Majesty, it is getting dark."
We all got up onto the rickety roost, but we were barely upon it, when the door opened again, and this time the our girl came out.
The hurried over to us, wrenching away the wire fence and not even bothering to close it is again.
"Yikes," I whispered. "What's going on?"
"I-I dunno," said Strelitzia. "Sh-she hasn't got any treats..."
Then she squealed, "Oh, Princess, l-look out!"
I found myself being lifted from behind. Human Girl was trying to move us!
I kicked and slapped her hands with my wings. She dropped me for a moment to rub her hands, and then she lunged at me again and this time she caught me tightly.
I squawked indignantly. Human Girl carried me out of the run, towards the back door of the Haunted Henhouse; she could not simply slip me through the window/door, cos it had been boarded up.
I tried to scratch her, but I didn't succeed. She entered the spooky building and laid me like a little chick onto the 'roost'...
"I'll bring ickle Wenie-Claw her friends, shall I?" she cooed as she left.
I bristled angrily, and settled myself as comfortably as I could.
After a few seconds, she returned carrying a ruffled Lady Protea. She gave me a cold look. "I want to sit there," she said icily as she was set down beside me.
"No way!" I told her.
Soon, Strelitzia was there too. We were all pretty much settled for the night.
Human Girl placed some cold water and cereal with yogurt on the floor near the door.
"Night-night!" she said to us.
Then she shut the door and left.
It poured during the night, and the wind blew horribly hard, but it was fairly warm in the Haunted Henhouse.
Finally, morning came and we hopped down to have some food and water.
We drank much, but the cereal and yogurt we just nibbled.
After we had eaten we waited for our Human Girl to let us out.
She came after a while, and let us free range her garden a bit, out of the run.
I desperately wanted to lay an egg; so did Streli. But we wanted to use my Broody Corner.
I hurried over to it. "It's my Broody Corner, I get to go first!" I called to her.
"B-but I'm younger!" she shouted stubbornly.
I reached the leaf-covered corner. "Ha!" I screeched in triumph. "I got here first!"
But as I peeked inside, I gasped in horror. My whole cozy little nest was soaking wet!
I screamed for Human Girl. She hurried out at my call.
"What is it, Princess?" she asked.
"NO! Noooo! My nest! Look at my nest!" I howled.
"Calm down, Rowena," my human snapped. "Wait here."
She went into our coop, and gathered some dry grass from the nest. Then she went into the Haunted Henhouse and took some dry grass from that nest, too.
She returned to My Broody Corner with a good amount of warm, dry grass.
She laid it over the wet leaves at the bottom of my nest. I crept in and tested it. It was lovely!
I gave my human a quick look that meant 'thank you' and began to lay my egg.
It came out after about 4 minutes, with Strelitzia hopping up and down with impatience by the entrance. What a beauty it was! I nudged it carefully into a soft spot and let Streli in.
"B-bok," she grumbled. "W-what took you s-so long?"
I ignored her.
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The rest of the day was pretty much OK. We ate a hot lunch and supper and we were put back into the Haunted Henhouse for the night. "It's a terrible storm, girls," our human informed us as she put us up. "You must stay here. It's warmer than your Summer Coop."
So we will probably stay in the Haunted Henhouse for the rest of winter... Or forever, perhaps.
Anyway, it's really time I stopped typing; it's nearly morning and Human Girl will let us out any time now.
- Princess Rowena of Rowena's Kingdom
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