BeePocalypse 3: The More Things Change...

[aldersprig]

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Slowly, very slowly, Kelly turned around.  It was Reyansh, and yet it wasn’t.  His face was more pointed, his eyes bigger and also more pointed, his skin looked iridescent, and he had wings sprouting from his back, bug-like wings that glimmered in iridescent blues.  “The Bees, their most potent attack was their most subtle.  They created something we’re calling a smart virus.  It mutates us, all in a hope of making our brains more susceptible to the Bee Hive’s commands.”

The green-blue woman filled in.  “Children born into this environment have almost no chance of surviving - they cannot withstand the immunization for the mind control, and second-generation physical alterations are almost always fatal in utero, if not soon afterwards.  They weren’t looking for a breeding population - or, we think, the ‘immunization’ against the mind control alters something that is meant to let us survive.”

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Comments

[sauergeek]

...huh, the kids in the cave aren't captives of the bees; they're the captives of the rebels. That rather changes things.

I suspect that the rebels have a group working on an anti-mutagen. There's obviously a lot of the upperside culture we haven't seen; that's also true of the underground culture.

I wonder how much the bees know.

[aldersprig]

…huh, the kids in the cave aren’t captives of the bees; they’re the captives of the rebels.

This is a very interesting way to look at this!!

I wonder how much the bees know.

You always manage to ask the questions I haven’t thought of answers for yet!