TWO WEEKS AFTER THIS DECISION BY NECTUS, GRAND COMMANDER BLOODIMINA GOT HER GIFT.
Standing on a landing pad near her portable camp-fortress, she opened a wooden crate carried here all the way from the Bee Empire by a dragon. Inside were neatly stacked rows of long items draped in fabric for protection.
Bloodimina pulled out one. A few dozen bees that were busy unpacking other crates had stopped to look at her curiously.
Normally, Bloodimina would've chided them for getting distracted, but she was distracted herself. After all, this was the cargo her Father has warned her about, and which she awaited impatiently since then.
She unwrapped the cloth. Underneath was a long, polished steel barrel, a complicated-looking mechanism attached to it, a sleek handle and a smooth wooden butt.
