After the first day—a day that my delegation mostly spent resting after the journey—Ambrosia's mood improved drastically. She also became heavy with eggs and spent the next two days inside the Hive Explanatoria.
These eggs were placed in the care of the hive's Nurses and its Queen, Rulia-103.
I feared that selfish bee instincts of Rulia-103 might make her distaste having to rear daughters of another Queen Bee, even if this Queen Bee was her mother. But to my relief and quiet pride, Rulia-103 was thankful for this opportunity.
"Mother, Father, your brood will be cared for by my most experienced Nurses!" Rulia-103 claimed. "Several thousand of my sisters… and from the latest generation with all the latest genetic upgrades… It will improve the effectiveness of my hive so much! Oh, Father—but will you morphotype them? And other eggs in my hive…"
Of course I agreed to that, and then several other bees began asking me the same on the behalf of their own sub-hives!
