Chapter 131: A Fair-Bee Odd Room
The next morning, Belissar set out to set up a Fairy Grove. First, he considered where to place it. The empty rooms were currently on the second floor, which at the moment only held the Orchard since he had moved the karnuq and Apiary floors up a step each, but he could always rearrange the rooms as necessary. There was an argument for placing the Fairy Grove ahead of the battle meadow so that an invading shade would have to face its unpredictable effects before reaching the bee army. On the other hand, a major reason Belissar chose the Fairy Grove was the promise of new flowers and new bees, in which case it would be better to keep it closer to the Apiary and the bees working there.
Hypothetically, he could always set up two Fairy Groves, as he had the room slots open. However, the Fairy Grove was the most expensive room he had by far, even more so than the Lava Field. He was not comfortable spending that much mana to set up two when he still didn’t know exactly what they did.
And since he didn’t know exactly what they did, he decided not to overthink it. He went ahead and placed a Fairy Grove off to the side of the Orchard for now. He’d think about moving it elsewhere once they had figured out how it actually fit into his Tower. He also didn’t bother adjusting anything about the room, since he knew he didn’t know enough to know what, if anything, he should change.
He turned to Niobee.
“I’m placing the new room by the Orchard. I’m, um, still not sure about where it’s going to go in the end but…there’s a chance we’ll use it to defend and we still aren’t sure what will happen with it. So…maybe we shouldn’t set up any hives there for a bit, until we know how the room works.”
Belissar then jumped a bit and waved his hands around.
“Ah, the bees are welcome to visit and forage though! They should, in fact!”
Niobee took it in stride with a salute dance.
“Ok! Will tell queens!”