Possible Clues:

• Upset, being drawn?
• Drawn -- but emotionally defeated?
• Local bitterly disappointed by one of those from The Upper House endlessly contacting Department
• Local bitterly disappointed by one of those from The Upper House, endlessly contacting Department
• Removed the insides, of a fish perhaps
• Reduced to a shell
• Emptied; upset
• Left only the exterior of
• Extremely disappointed, as a fish might be?
• Readied for renovation