And yea, the way unto the land of milk and honey would be opened by a buzzing bush, one whose flower-laden boughs attracted bees by the hundreds. Being wise in the ways of honey as they were, these bees would act as the Hive for a great Queen, and in so doing lead the faithful and sting the unrighteous.

This was all so until the prophet did swat at one bee of the buzzing bush, finding it irksome, and was set upon by their number. For in so swatting the bee, he had upset their Swarm and their Queen, and the land of milk and honey was therefore set apart from him, a land he would see only after forty years and even then not enter. For although the prophet had built a lot of buzz, it had been of the wrong kind.

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