Chapter 208: The King's Bee-solve
Belissar put his internal conflict aside. First and foremost, he had to see what everyone else thought of the options first. As usual, he turned the question to the bees.
The First of the Fifth conferred with the Apiary bees, but they had few dances this time.
“Dancers might help with hive? Bees sound good for army, should ask Firstborn!”
The Fourth of the Seventh was apparently in the middle of evolving, so the First of the Fifth’s First Daughter spoke for the Apiary.
“Dancers are communer evolution? Could help scouts!”
Belissar nodded to acknowledge them and then turned to the battle meadow queens. Today, it was their turn to have an intense dance-off as they debated the merits of the three options. The Firstborn, however, noticed Belissar’s attention on them and tried to summarize the viewpoints.
“All bees good. Dancers help existing bees. Berserkers make soldier army stronger, make sure bees don’t die without fight. Assassins good for ambushes, find way around defense. Makes one sting dangerous if bees can’t sting more.”
The first digging queen, the Fourth of the Fifth, also flew forward to dance this time.
“Assassins good for tunnels, digging bees! Can sting from underground!”