POBee 208.3 - I Bee-lieve I can Fly!
The Fourth of the Seventh danced about happily. She was big now! Big enough to carry both her first communer and the First of the Fifth’s First Daughter on her back, like the Conduit carried her queen mother Velebee! It was amazing, incredible!
She wanted to carry them outside and show them the mini-hive, but she knew they both needed to stay with the main hive. Maybe once their daughters grew up a bit more! For now, though the Fourth of the Seventh decided to take care of the hive before she left again.
It ended up being really easy! She was big now, but the worker eggs were still small, so she could lay a ton of them! She could lay as many right now as she would have if she just stayed in the main hive all the time! So that’s what she did! It was a bit hard to fit in between the trays now, but by beating her wings she could wrap the eggs with wind and they would just glide to their cells. It was amazing!
She quickly filled up all the cells set aside for brood, and then kept going…and going. She then felt her communer rapidly dancing on her back.
“Queen mother, what doing?! Too many eggs, hive can’t feed, can’t tend!”
The First Daughter, amazingly nice queen that she was, started to volunteer to take care of the eggs but the Fourth of the Seventh danced first.
“Is ok! Can tell eggs to sleep now! Won’t hatch until communer tells to!”
Her communer stumbled.
“Huh? But…will starve if don’t give honey?”