Adam watched bees fly into an out of the tree that represented the entrance to their hive. Already so busy. He smiled.

This was a good forest. With the hive now safe from bears and winters, any Beekeeper would thrive here. But Adam had further plans.

The first thing he needed to do was return to the two he’d left in the motel. The human, Jason, would probably have left if he’d been alone, but Adam suspected that the robot, Gladys, would have kept him there.

After drinking from a nearby stream, Adam began marching back out of the woods.