(i refuse to edit this chapter)


    You know what? I’m done.


    “What in the goddamn hell shit are you talking about.”


    Stand aside, Queen. Its time to enact my plan. I’ve been holding in these urges since the very beginning, struggling, hoping, forcing myself to keep it all contained. But no longer. I know you lie to me. I know everyone lies to me! And I hate everyone. So its time.


    “Beatrice. Bedivere,” I said to my two most powerful and awesome bees.


    They appeared before me,  tilting their heads, even though they were nowhere nearby only a moment before. Vlugh didn’t react, because whatever shred of personality he once had was stripped away by the weird thing in his head, but he also tilted his head.


    “Its time. My grand plan. Its time to kill everyone on this planet.”


    Bedivere jerked, as if he had been shot, but Beatrice only nodded.


    “I see. It seems that I had begun to doubt you, but I see now that this was part of your plans all along. You even knew that the Linkers would lead to these unbelievable complications, but that it was worth the pain in order to kill everybody.”


    “Precisely, Beatrice. You’re so smart and intelligent and capable. Anyways.”


    Before Queen could respond, I commanded the Linkers she was hiding to connect to the bear. It was over in an instant. Easy peasy! The Linker just made everything so easy, no need to think about tough consequences or anything. I can just control everyone’s Minds with zero reprecusions, moral conundrums, or second thoughts. Now with the bear under my control, I forced it to disable its Ability so I could send another Linker towards her beaver friend. Not a thought entered my head about the bear’s many memories of her life as a human in my world, because who cared? They were just some other chump in the way of efficiency or something.


    “What the FUCK, Enno?”


    Chill Queen, chill. I mean, I’m just being efficient and stuff. Bees are super efficient, which is a trait only bees have right? Nothing to do with humans. So since bees are efficient I need to Mind control everyone we come across because that’s obviously the most efficient way of doing anything. Get me?


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    “No? What the fuck?”


    Ah, don’t worry about it. So vulgar. Don’t worry, eventually we’ll kill Yelah’s Mind so you can stay comfortably in her body forever! Yay! Anyways time to get killing.


    Beatrice had already sprung into action. Bedivere, without so much as a moment to process what was happening, simply followed her directions. In no time at all, every bee in the hive was swarming, a cloud almost as big as the Shroud that once covered the forest. I smiled. Finally. A proper swarm.


    “Okay everyone! Time to kill everyone. Before we kill them, though, we should Mind control them with Linkers, just in case. So your job will be to act as distractions, weaken people, incapacitate them, so we can Link people, torture them just a teeny tiny bit, and then they die. Great stuff!”


    ““Yes, Mother!””


    The bees all shouted in unison. They were completely indistinguishable from one another. Even I couldn’t differentiate them. Except Ben. Good ol Ben. Bees with names, bees without names, it didn''t matter. They were all pretty much the same now.  No need to even think of the individuals. They were a swarm.


    “Onward!”


    The swarm began to advance. Except for me. Obviously I wasn’t allowed to leave. Even though I’d be alone, so it didn’t really make much sense, but there was no chance I’d ever be leaving this forest. I had to stay here forever or else something different might happen for once.


    “Is this really what you want?” Plot man - I mean, Vlugh, said quietly.


    “Sure. I don’t have any kind of moral quandry with this. Plus, maybe now that the bees will move across the continent, Linking and killing everyone and everything in sight, some plot points from a hundred chapters ago might actually finally get revealed. Its been years - I mean, months - since some of this stuff was introduced, and nothing! What, are new things just gonna keep getting introduced forever with no answers?”


    “What…?”


    “Exactly! Its about time someone do something around these parts, and my motivation? Killing! Its all about motivation my little friend. Ooh, watch this. It’ll still take the swarm a few weeks - I mean, days - to reach Yiwi, so I’ll just start some of the killing now.”


    With that, I focused on Yiwi. I was shocked by what I found, except I wasn’t because I knew everything. The city was exactly the same from the last time I thought about it, which was like a really long time ago or something. Whatever. With just a bit of focus, I gave a single command to every person Linked in the city.


    Die!


    The humans stood, all suddenly overcome with primal fear. They couldn’t resist me because that’s just how it worked. One by one, they reached up, and snapped their neck, and died, because I hadn’t yet killed someone with the Link in the story so who knew if I could actually do that.


    “Fantastic!”


    I rubbed my hands claws hands bee hands together with a mildly evil but probably morally grey grin. The swarm would do my dirty work, and I’d be free of any responsibility.  I would forcibly learn the secrets of the world that were taking way too long to learn about. Maybe I would even find out what happened to the game-like elements of this world that sort of exist. And one more thing that is mildly surprising or shocking.


    [Insert final sentence to act as a lukewarm cliffhanger for the next chapter here]