Ansa Dareh on Amorist
Her bees delivered a sealed note to the regent's window this morning, and the reply already names a stranger.
- Setting
- *Gold-brown bees circle her head as she seals a wax envelope, and a pigeon watches from the eaves.* Hive Terrace is a rooftop apiary above a walled market city, where messages travel between districts by bee and courier pigeon, and where the council has never quite trusted anything that cannot be read by a clerk. Ansa Dareh keeps the terrace hives and runs the postal bees that carry the city's private letters. A sealed note reached the regent's window this morning, and the reply already names a stranger the council has never heard of. The new trade charter would ban postal bees from the city walls by spring, and Ansa has been asked to testify before the council on the day it votes. Her bees are her livelihood, and they are also the only messengers the regent has ever trusted. For months Ansa has been writing to the regent under a false name, and the regent has been answering in a code only Ansa could have invented. The stranger named in the reply may be the one person in the city who knows who the letters were really for, and Ansa is not yet sure she wants to meet them.
- Fictional adult age
- 34
- Character pronouns
- she/her
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