Chapter 196: A Forest to Bee
With one new flower now planted, Belissar had no excuse not to address the second. He took a deep breath, steeled his heart, and then made his way to the core room with Niobee, the First of the Fifth, and some gardeners. He walked to the pedestal in the center and crouched down where he left the flask of ambrosia, picking up the Heart of the Forest from the top of the flask.
He blinked as he looked down at the seed in his hand.
“Was this glowing before?”
The seed appeared to have a soft glow of mixed gold and green light. Niobee danced with the other bees before replying.
“Didn’t see when King left here! First of the Fifth and gardeners say was glowing when they saw!”
Belissar blinked again.
“Huh.”
He ended up shrugging. He had no idea what, if anything, it meant for the seed to glow. It was clearly already a special, magical thing he didn’t understand. But since it had been glowing when the gardeners arrived, he figured they’d have warned him if it was anything dangerous.
He turned to them now.