I am Queen Drucilla V. Until this year, my subjects and I have enjoyed a prosperous life. Now, on the brink of my retirement, my bee colony is in a crisis. Pollen is scarce this year, my worker bees can’t produce enough honey for everyone to get a full ration, and part of the hive is starting to crumble.
The truth is, we won’t make it through the winter unless I go to work. Ever since I was a little princess, I have wanted to be a journalist. So now I am going to try it out. But I’m not just any journalist. In particular, I want to meet characters from other books and hear about their strange and fascinating lives. It is such a great advantage to our colony that we have all learned how to read, but that is another story.
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