Pets as a concept really is alien here. Humanity’s love of pets is one redeeming factor in our favour but the Kingdom considers this a bit of an oddball given we (a) happily eat other animals and (b) we lavish far more love and attention on pets than we do our fellow human beings. The Kingdom thinks humans feel by being kind to some creatures we can make up for the immense suffering and damage we’ve done to others and that we’re wrong to think that! Mind it is difficult having a pet in the magical realm given so many obvious creatures do not lend themselves that well to being tamed. The Queen keeps a stable of unicorns that deign to allow her to ride them but even she treats them with the utmost respect and dignity. The unicorns see themselves as being at her service because they choose to be.
The Palace is kept continuously clean by the Household, but when the Queen goes on her summer tours, the staff take the opportunity to carry out the annual deep down clean, involving noisy equipment which would irritate their boss if they used it in her presence. Think giant vacuum cleaners capable of sucking up anything and anyone. The other reason the Queen stops the use of these things when she’s in residence is she knows full well the Household may well be tempted to suck up anything and anyone irritating them. She knows that when she returns from her tours they’ve got to give an account of what they’ve been up to. If anyone has gone missing in her absence, the Household are held to account to it (it is usually too late to retrieve the unfortunate victim from the outsized suction bag!).
Pets as a concept really is alien here. Humanity’s love of pets is one redeeming factor in our favour but the Kingdom considers this a bit of an oddball given we (a) happily eat other animals and (b) we lavish far more love and attention on pets than we do our fellow human beings. The Kingdom thinks humans feel by being kind to some creatures we can make up for the immense suffering and damage we’ve done to others and that we’re wrong to think that! Mind it is difficult having a pet in the magical realm given so many obvious creatures do not lend themselves that well to being tamed. The Queen keeps a stable of unicorns that deign to allow her to ride them but even she treats them with the utmost respect and dignity. The unicorns see themselves as being at her service because they choose to be.
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AuthorI'm Allison Symes and I write novels, short stories as well as some scripts and poems. I love setting my work in my magical world, the Fairy Kingdom, and my favourite character is Eileen, who believes hypocrisy is something that happens to other people without caring that statement is hypocritical in itself! Eileen is huge fun to write for and about. Archives
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