She is gone.
My resident spider who was residing outside my bedroom window and for whose sake I didn't use the other door to the terrace lest I should disturb her web.
I was making a joke that the only company I would have for Xmas would be the Worthless Ones and the resident spider. Now she is gone, but she stayed through the 24th.
Her sister spiders with their webs in the garden left some time ago, but my spider hung in there with the company of the diminutive male who I noticed is left in her web right next to all her neatly wrapped victims. Dead. I fear he got his way, for as a final insult, he has been left unwrapped.
And so I wait for the next time the spiders come back to build their webs and give me endless entertainment.