POBee 147.2 - A Bee-utiful Day in the Neighborhood
Eventually, the memorial and subsequent celebrations came to a close. Belissar couldn’t help but feel a bit better as he had watched the bees dance around and slurp up honey. Apparently, they were more happy to have won the battle than they were to have lost any of their own. Belissar couldn’t remain sad himself in the face of that, if for no other reason than that he didn’t want to ruin their celebration.
Afterwards, there was much to do and think about, but Belissar felt drained, so he decided to call it and head to bed. He woke up the next morning to find Niobee waiting for him as usual…with her queen still clinging to her back. She began her usual salute dance as she saw him.
“Good morning Niobee. Did your queen stay with you last night?”
“Yes!”
Belissar frowned. He may have been drained by the events of yesterday, but there was no excuse to have left a queen without a place to stay. He needed to rectify that immediately.
He was about to ask Niobee to speak with the queen for him when he paused. He tilted his head and then his eyes widened as he realized…he had already spoken to the queen and she had responded. He focused in more closely on her and found that she now had a bit of mana flowing through her.
It seemed she was not just a normal honeybee any more.
In any case, that was convenient, since it meant he could speak with her directly.
“Hi there, hope you slept well. Sorry I didn’t prepare any place for you to stay. I’ll show you around and build you a home…um, if you want to stay here with us, that is.”