The birds and the bees

"Sure, Father. With this many working hands, it will be no problem at all!"

Scavengers like vultures and hyenas had evolved adaptations that allowed them to eat rotten meat. Bees like myself weren't supposed to eat meat in the first place.

Good thing that we finally had enough working hands to deal with all of it!

Under Workharder's direction, the workers she brought joined ones already at the site. A carpet of bees covered entire carcasses, giving even the tamed dragons a pause in their feast (or maybe they just decided they gorged themselves enough).

In an hour, everything worked as smoothly as a well-oiled machine! Bees cut chitin, meat and fat into pieces with their knives—the decomposing flesh was easy to cut, even if it stank more and more with each hour.