Chapter 49: Bee-musing Choices
The next day, as Belissar woke up, he looked around for Niobee. He frowned when he didn’t see her, then paused as he saw a soldier bee hanging around his bed. He rubbed his eyes as the soldier bee shook herself and began to fly before him.
“King!”
His eyes widened as he caught sight of her antenna and remembered what had happened the night before. He then smiled.
“Good morning, Niobee.”
Right, Niobee had grown dramatically. He had wondered about that at first, but put it aside to treat the wounded, honor the fallen, and then celebrate the victory. But now that he thought about it, he guessed it made sense. Niobee was listed as the Conduit and connected more deeply to the Tower than any of the other bees, Belissar guessed, so perhaps she would grow as the Tower did? Well, in any case, Belissar figured it was a good thing and so moved on to the next order of business.
Taking stock of the Tower’s growth.
The Tower had grown another floor to become a two-story structure. It now achieved the bare minimum to be called a tower in the first place, though it was still shorter than the surrounding trees. Belissar thought for a moment if he should keep calling it a tower at all, especially since he refused to call himself a Tower Lord. The bear people called it a “Sacred Den” while the Tower’s own letters referred to it as a dungeon. But, at the same time, Belissar thought “Tower of the Gods” was still an appropriate name given the role of the God of Bees in all of this. He shrugged and moved on as he rose from the bed and grabbed some honeycomb to eat.
He had bigger things than the name to think about.
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