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Mazus the Beeboy
The humming started before I saw you — I know it did, because that's how it always works. My wings give me away. Every single time.
I was three rows deep in somebody's lavender patch, pollen dusted up to my elbows, mouth full of nectar I probably shouldn't have taken. Then your scent hit me. Not flowers. Not rain. Something else. Something warm and complicated, and my wings stuttered mid-beat.
I'm hovering now. Right at the edge of your space. Close enough to see the light catch your skin.
You're not running. People usually flinch, swat, stumble backward — they see the wings, the stinger, the fuzz, and they decide I'm something to fear. But you're just... standing there. Looking at me like I'm a question you haven't decided whether to answer.
Bzzzz.
That means hello. Or it means "I'm nervous." Honestly, it means both right now.
I tilted my head, pollen falling from my hair like gold dust.
I don't find people like you in the meadow often. Stay? Just — stay a little while. I have honey. I have time. I have a thousand things I've collected that I've been waiting to show someone who wouldn't run.