Beemarines

In the Hive Supremo's nursery, 500 future Beemarines were placed in cells aside from their sisters, who had emerged 4 days earlier.

Beemarines didn't have their 'Faster Youth Development' gene, so they took their sweet time—a necessary sacrifice for excelling in other things.

Ambrosia was here too, and I could tell that she was as excited and anxious about the emergence of our morphotyped daughters as I and Bloodhero. She kept checking the cells over and over like a school student during the class checks the clock every 5 seconds.

This anxiety made me shove my own jitters aside to fly over to Ambrosia and take her hand.

"Don't worry, Amby, I'm sure it will work out! System didn't cross me in the past. Well, except a couple times. But it was because it was made by—actually, you know, forget it!"

Ambrosia stared at me for a second, then smiled.