Chapter 99: Basic Geolo-Bee
The wounded soldier focused on the air ahead of her. She began to beat her wings, creating a chain of lightning surging around her body. She began to focus this lightning and move it about. She twisted into a pattern that resembled the steps of the dance for “sting.”
The pattern locked into place and then flashed as she pushed her mana into it. Lightning took the shape of a stinger and shot out into the air before her. She stared at it for a moment before breaking out into a happy dance.
She…had done it. She had found a way to fight again.
Well, it would take a lot more work. That lightning hadn’t even traveled as far as a sprayer’s attack and she still couldn’t fly, so actually getting to the battle would be a problem. But it was a step in the right direction and an important one at that.
She stopped dancing as she felt a pair of antennae brush against her. She turned to see the other wounded soldiers gathered around her. Her antennae twitched before she began to dance the affirmative to the question she knew they had.
The process by which she received her lightning was dangerous. She knew the others wanted to try, and not a single one of them would shy away from danger on behalf of the hive, but that was why she wanted to be certain. She wasn’t going to put her sisters at risk unless she knew that her path would lead them where they wanted to go. But now…now she could be confident that it did. In time…she would be able to rejoin the fight.
And that meant that now…it was time to help her sisters follow her path.
Belissar stared with wide eyes through his Tower sight as he watched the wounded soldier’s lightning fly through the air. She had come up as something to keep track of as he was talking to the bees, so he decided to look in on how she was doing.
Just in time to see a stinger made of lighting surge through the air.