The Goddess

Chapter Twentyeight

Adam's POV

Before Avira could protest or even get a chance to speak about what she wanted to say to the queen, that was soon cut off when I returned with the piece I needed for the portability of the food I could not eat.

Because this was an alien yet foreign planet to me, he needed to take precautions, hoping I could eat food in this world.

I jogged up and caught my breath before greeting us with a reassuring smile.

Avira needed clarification. The queen was slightly interested in what I grabbed from the quarters I was in.

I noticed the expressions on their faces and could tell they were curious about what I had retrieved, so I tried my best to think I would explain to them what I had brought with me.

The scanner used a minor effective laser designed to absorb data and minerals. It used a simple sensor system that could calibrate with the laser to transfer the data to what minerals were inside a specific material it absorbs and tell if it was edible or had a similar chemistry structure to food back on Earth.

"I forgot that I could not detect any edibles, and there were none. We plan to eat edible elements of the food source for the morning. So, I brought this to help detect edibles and non-edibles just in case." I explained in my human language, hoping the queen understood my words, but I knew Avira did because she gave me a reassuring and knowable nod.

And so did the queen as well and then we made our way towards the corridors and hallways of the kingdom and saw other anthro honey bees walking around in similar clothing that was slightly different because they wore yellow and dark yellow colored thin silk-like clothing of some kind clothing that the anthro honey bees wore, that looked like the characters that were in an old classic in the 2000's called Dune, that when I noticed that they slightly looked at me for a moment before they averted their gaze when they saw the queen bowing to her and leaving the same time she passed by them to which when they bowed to her.

But when the hooded anthro honey bees looked at me again, I felt their eyes looking at me, making me feel uncertain. I looked away from them as they left farther away from the corridor.

The queen seemed to notice my concerned look, so she took a moment and slightly brushed one of her lower torso arms to gesture to the hooded honey bees that passed by us.

"Those are the religious ones. They call themselves the sisters. They monitor and bless the ones who have created us and our world," the queen said, hoping that what she had explained made sense to me.

Soon, however, she caught my attention when she mentioned "the ones that created us and our world."

"Wait, aren't there three of them?" I asked, hoping that my assumption of the high probability of the dream, or at least that was what I thought it was, was correct, but it was a being higher than me of all living things speaking to me.

The queen slowed down slightly, just enough for me to catch up with her and Avira, including to see that the two anthro honey bee armored guards were marching behind us but keeping a watchful eye on me. 

Still, I ignored them and continued my attention with the queen, who seemed slightly surprised by my question and said, "Why yes, how did you know of this, if you do not mind me asking?" her attention now concentrated down towards me.

Taking a minute to catch up with her leg speed endurance, I could walk by her side and look up at her. 

Still, I wasn't sure that telling her that I had a dream of a being that spoke to me would be a logical option, and I wasn't sure after Avira gave the queen dagger eyes and trusting her was a good idea and I wasn't sure whom to trust at the moment, so I shrugged, "No reason." I said, hoping my lie would get to her and she would buy it signed off suspiciously, looking at me.

Thankfully, it worked; she nodded knowingly, and we continued down another corridor, turning left. A few feet ahead, we saw a giant hexagon-shaped stone-carved door that was light and dark yellow.

There was a guard at the front of the door, and they carefully yet quickly started to open the doors to reveal my wide eyes to see a hexagon-shaped wooden royal dining table filled with what looked to be plant-based foods on golden-plated dishes and what looked to be giant honeycombs of homey on trays.

The queen noticed my surprised expression and asked.

"Does your kind not have certain dishes like these?" she asked, a small smile growing as she looked at me. Avira noticed this and scoffed, rolling her eyes in a way that the queen was too busy looking down at me.

I looked at her and spoke, "Of course, but not like this." I said, gesturing to the table.

"Well, then, shall we?" the queen asked, looking over to Avira and me and gesturing us to our tables; the queen then signaled with her left upper arm and came out what I assumed were anthro bees dressed like butlers, coming over with tables that showed the smaller structure of hexagons.

"Man, bees with the hexagons." I thought.

I heard a snort, a kind of chuckle, looking above me and looking to see Avira giving me a slight smile. I assumed he must have heard or sensed what I thought.

The queen was the first to see the tables and gestured her bustlers to assign us to our chairs to sit in.

As we sat, I and I sat across in front of one another, and the queen was sitting before us on my right side and sat on Avira's left side as well.

After a moment, the buyers handed us both a hexagon handkerchief or napkin, if you should say so, and the queen then singled them out to leave, leaving the three of us alone.

Realizing what I had forgotten, I pulled out the device I had brought with me, looked at her, and after taking a minute to make sure it had a fuel battery cell inside, and that the green digital calculator-like screen was on, I was able to make sure that it had enough power to naysay the foof consult me even in the slightest."

I nodded to her, and after taking a minute to make sure it had a fuel battery cell inside and that the green digital calculator-like screen was on, I could make sure that it had enough power to naysay the food before me.

Pulling the underbelly trigger of the device as if it were a game controller from an old game console from an Xbox or PlayStation. 

A small blue laster struck at the food before, and after a brief moment, it stopped and showed the words processing on the screen. 

Moments after I noticed the two watching me with slight curiosity, the device beeped. I looked down at the sauce and saw the element that showed to be potassium, also known as element K, on the periodic table (found in produce, aka vegetables). The rest were metals, but I wasn't sure what these metals were. 

They were titled and marked unknown on the device's screen before me.

The two watched me intently as I adjusted a tuning knob that was built in on the side of the device. 

I tuned it to switch to a different setting, hoping the other setting would help identify the metals, but I saw that they were still one of these iron metals and that the platter I scanned had a small piece of meat on the dish, so it was unknown. Still, I could locate it and assumed this meat was all right for me to eat.

Setting my device down and then looking at the two Anthro bees across from the sides of the table, I nodded to them and spoke, "I think I should be able to eat this."

The queen then clasped her hands and smiled at the both of us.

"Well, then, let's dig in. Shall we?" the queen said, and before I could dig in, she gave me a sly look, leaving me confused for a moment before I pulled out my silverware and used it to pick a piece of the platter of food from the plate.

I observed the food for a bit before taking a bite, my eyes winded by the slow yet sudden flavor of the food I had from this piece of food before me. It was delicious—like the flavor of roasted beef with spices that I couldn't recognize, but it was good, better than I expected.

And I looked to the queen, who observed me as I was eating and gave me a questionable look.

I knew that look, and so I spoke. "This is good. Thank you, Your Majesty."

To be continued