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[lingeringhope]

[Hope's voice is clear and clipped.]

If you would like to leave a message, you may do so here. I can't promise to respond. I have many demands on my time, and this sort of thing is far down the list. Still, if you would like to, you may.

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[lingeringhope]

That would be possible, but it would not be easy, particularly if it's meant to be permanent. Also, they would be unlikely to survive for long.

[wormintheglass]

Why wouldn't they? We have fruit trees and flowers. I'm perfectly prepared to feed and house them till they can establish themselves. So is Castiel. Are you really going to crush my hopes, dearheart?

[lingeringhope]

The trees and flowers here are supported by the light in the cave and our magic. I don't believe they would necessarily provide the proper nutrition for insects.

[wormintheglass]

Now you're just making excuses, Hope. If the plants here can feed us, they can certainly sustain a few bees.

Are you being difficult because it's me?

[lingeringhope]

I wasn't aware that you ate the same things as insects. Perhaps you could explain to me how bees survive? Then I will know whether they can survive here.

[wormintheglass]

All carbon-based life forms eat more or less the same things, Hope dear. Bees require mostly sugar and I know your plants can produce that.

[lingeringhope]

I don't wish to create lives that will only die again. Why do you want bees so badly anyway?

[wormintheglass]

Everything dies, Hope. Individual bees have short lifespans by nature, but it doesn't matter to them. They're not individuals. Their hive survives.

What I need from you is enough to keep the hive viable. I'm sending you a text file of everything I know about successful beekeeping; it's a lot.

(attached: imaginary file about bees.txt)

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[wormintheglass]

I want them because they're a nearly perfect life form. They're everything I should have been and have never been able to be: a voluntary cooperative, a collection of lives working in harmony to make the universe sweeter.

[lingeringhope]

Very well. I cannot promise they'll flourish here, but I will alter one for you. In order to give me the necessary power to do so, you'll need to do something - or various things - that genuinely helps five people. Give them hope.