Precisely. [There's a mix of pride and awe in Myr's tone; bees really are miracles.] I hadn't known quite how much until now, but it's really a wonder how they organize it.
[He is distracted a moment by the scent of the something delicious that Hector's brought and takes a deep appreciative breath of it before continuing.]
You want the whole thing? [His grin widens.] It's not tidy to put into words. Something like-- "The Hive That Is Twenty Seconds Flying From the Honeysuckle Along the Line of the Sun's Axis and One Minute Flying Sunward to the Apple Tree and--"
[He goes on in this vein for at least thirty seconds, naming everything a bee would be interested in foraging from in at least a mile's radius. Bees, man.
Apparently they're also getting after the sugar at a nearby bakery, if "Ten Minutes' Flying From Crystal Honey In the Stone House" is anything to go on.]
this embarrassing two-day gap brought to you by me musing over what a beehive would name itself
[He is distracted a moment by the scent of the something delicious that Hector's brought and takes a deep appreciative breath of it before continuing.]
You want the whole thing? [His grin widens.] It's not tidy to put into words. Something like-- "The Hive That Is Twenty Seconds Flying From the Honeysuckle Along the Line of the Sun's Axis and One Minute Flying Sunward to the Apple Tree and--"
[He goes on in this vein for at least thirty seconds, naming everything a bee would be interested in foraging from in at least a mile's radius. Bees, man.
Apparently they're also getting after the sugar at a nearby bakery, if "Ten Minutes' Flying From Crystal Honey In the Stone House" is anything to go on.]