It would be worse for her to see them suffer

Rebecca sighs and agrees to go find some lavender for them. It would be worse to stay here and hear them in pain. She already knew what lavender looks like, due to her studies in Pollensville. Though she did have Billy explain to her which part of it was necessary to make the potion. It was not the pollen, which she had hoped. Once she got all the information she needed, she left the drones’ small hive.

Rebecca crawled though the opening between the square tree’s roots and got back outside. The sun was up and was actually quite a warm and sunny day. After rubbing the dust off her new tube dress, she put her backpack on, spread her wings and started flying. She was a bit more clumsy than usual, at first. Her weight was slightly off. Must be because of that sperm the drones left inside her.

The first thing she noticed was the river that separated her from that garden which almost ate her. Rebecca felt it was best to stay clear from that place and searched for lavender on her side of the river. Unfortunately, she found none. So, she did cross the river, but a while off from the garden. That place is dangerous.

Being on the other side of the river, before the garden, Rebecca found herself in a familiar place. The large field with the four-legged giants of white fur and black spots. This meant she was close to where she found that spider girl. Maybe Rebecca could ask her about the lavender.

A short flight later, Rebecca got back where she first met the spider. She found the spider girl grooming herself, running a comb through her hair while also being topless. But before she could hide the spider already sees her.

“Oh my. You came back. You’ve even got some lovely new clothes.” The spider replied happily. The she smirks and continues, “And look at how indecent I am. You don’t very much mind I hope, deary?” without even bothering to cover herself.

“Uhm ... I’ll … I’ll manage.” Rebecca stuttered. “Listen. I need a favor. Could you tell me where I can find lavender?”

“But of course, I can.” The spider girl replied with a very seductive voice. “I can tell you all about lavender. Just come over here and sit down.”

Rebecca remembers how last time she felt something weird about this place. She still remembered how she was taught to never trust spiders.

“Actually, I much prefer to fly.” Rebecca replied. “What’s the point of wings if you don’t use them, am I right?”

This might have actually been the wrong reply for the spider girl became upset.

“Well, if you’re going to be rude, then I won’t tell you.” She responds.

This was bad. Rebecca needed to find the lavender as quickly as possible, but she had a feeling that if trusted the spider, bad things will happen. She did however have one more trick up her sleeve. The last bit of Pollensville’s honey that her oldest son smuggled into her bag.

Rebecca pulled the jar of honey out and opened it in front of the spider.

“Have you ever seen something like this?” Rebecca asked as she presented the spider with the golden liquid. “It is honey. It tastes very good and is very nutritious. I’m sure it will go very nicely with your tea and cookies.”

The spider’s eyes went wide upon seeing the honey. “I’ve heard of it.” The spider said as she walked a bit closer. “It’s supposed to be really good. Can I have some?”

“First you need to tell me where the lavender is.” Rebecca demanded.

The spider frowned and replied “No.”

Rebecca then flew a bit to the side and dropped some honey on a leaf. “You can have this now if you like.” Then flew back.

The spider looked back between Rebecca and the honey left on the leaf. Rebecca could see she was torn between something. Eventually, the spider gave in to the honey and she … pretended to throw something at the honey covered leaf. But the leaf moved as if something had struck it and … then the spider started crawling on thin air? No, now Rebecca understood. The spider threw an invisible wire and was now crawling along that line. Suddenly, Rebecca gets an eerie feeling of there maybe being invisible lines all around her and so far, she has just been lucky to not have flown into them.

When the spider got to the other leaf, she went straight for the honey and started licking it off the leaf.

“Ummh.” She moaned. “Mmmh, they were right, this does taste good. Mmmh, so good.”

“Listen, it is really very important for me to find some lavender. If you can tell me where it is, you can have the rest of the jar.”

“Mmmmh.” The spider moans with her eyes closed as she savors the honey. “Over there.” She then replies. “There’s this place with lots of flowers. There’s a small patch of them there, in between some other flowers.” While pointing in the direction of the garden. Great. Just great.

Rebecca flew closer to the spider, who was too busy enjoying the honey. She followed the same path she flew previously as she knew that one was safe, and placed the closed jar on a different leaf.

“Thank you for helping.” Rebecca said, and then she flew off.

Once at the garden, Rebecca was extra careful. She saw the venus flytrap from a distance and decided to keep her distance as much as possible. Eventually, she got to the lavender and extracted the juices she needed. While she was there, the also collected a bit of nectar and pollen. Just a little. Then she flew back to her new home.

Upon returning home, Billy helped Rebecca turn the lavender juice into a potion. The pain effects of the potion together with the effects of the salve worked quite well and the pain the drones were feeling was practically gone. They could once again function like normal bees.

Rebecca then retreated to her room. The stress had exhausted her. She took off her tube dress and laid nude in her bed. She would have loved to switch into something else, like she sometimes did in Pollensville. But the thoughts of clothes brought up thoughts of her sons. Especially Robin who always picked out her dresses. He was so good at that. It was a real shame that she couldn’t be the mother they needed her to be. At least she was helpful to these three drones.