EDENVILLE

Rumours

By @naomimrshl

"Did you hear the Prince is coming?" Twila whispered in his ear.
"Did you hear he will inspect dear Ted?"

"Ted... Ted?... the shrunken head? Why does he want to see him?"

"Because there's a rumor Ted... Ted the shrunken head... was retribution for the Travesty in the Jungle. They say the Travesty was sposed to just quiet the natives. But that Ted... Ted the Shrunken Head... was the tragic result of a Travesty gone bad"

Wilfred stared at the barmaid and tried to make some sense of her words.

He pushed his empty glass across the smooth tiki bar surface and ordered another Zippy Martini as he nonchalantly tried to dig for additional information.

"Twila, dear Twila, where are you getting your information... little trolls from under the bridge?"

Twila giggled as she poured Wilfred's blue Polynesian Zippy into his chilled glass.
"I got this info direct from the Admiral himself!
He spends his Thursday afternoons here while he waits for his weekly shipment of cannon balls, and last week, he told me everything."

"I heard that Breem was putting a stop to those cannon balls... one of them crashed into the Weebol's Florida room and killed their parrot."

"I heard the same thing." Twila winked, knowingly.
"But no one cares very much... that parrot was rude and cheated in Monopoly. Some folks even say Mr. Weebbol encouraged that bird's under-handed ways with exotic jungle treats flown in special!"

Nervously Wilfred began to slowly twist the stem of his quickly emptied Zippy glass.

Never had he wagered more on one of his nefarious schemes... and never had he imagined to attract the attention of a member of the royal family!