They were not the hospital’s bees, Lelinho calmly assured the wide-eyed guests. They were bees from another colony who must have run out of space. They were flying with their queen, searching out a new home, and thought the colony boxes atop Valley looked promising.
Seeing that those boxes were already occupied, the buzzing cloud swirled harmlessly westward, to continue their search for a new home.
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