Blackwater Val
Cassie humphed.
Well, I’ll be a motherfather, she thought angrily, and started down the hill in a huff. Cassie glimpsed the plastic bottle filled with liquid smoke (a much safer alternative for quelling and immobilizing honeybees actually than the harmful, old-fashioned smokers once used) hanging on one of the upright box-hives. She considered taking it for the briefest of moments but continued on without it. “Shoot,” she muttered to herself, “shoot, shoot!” When she reached the bottom of her yard she watched them and tried to make sense of it, tried to figure what precisely was going on here, and why. She squinted into the sunlight, waving a hand about her scrunched-up face.
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