Sun Mote Copse Better hit the deck like the card dealer

@Fennec, @Figment, @Nellie or any combination thereof? :x Assuming they're welcome to visit.

Day one continued uneventfully, at least until Alyx learned her first important life lesson: fuck bees.

With the early advent of spring in Sun Mote Copes came certain busy insects, and it just so happened that a honeybee packed with pollen mistakenly wandered into Niamh's den. It buzzed past the dozing mother's nose and moseyed through the air to where the three neonates slept, packed together like round little sardines. Thoroughly confused, the bee landed first on sleeping Primrose, then crawled its way across his creamsicle-coloured flank and onto Alyx's.

Unfortunately, Alyx was awake and didn't take kindly to the uninvited tickler. She squirmed and rolled, carrying the bee with her and squashing it between her side and Quetzal's. The bee, suffocating and panicking now, aimed its tiny yellow rump downward and, knowing it was going to die regardless, released its itty bitty harpoon.

Alyx froze when she was stung, then screamed loudly and began throwing a colossal tantrum. An angry welt started to form where the stinger was still embedded in her flank.