Bees walking around the front of a hive, poked by a stick. One little bee emerges from with the hive through the arch shaped portal cut in the wood. Church-school of the cathedral bees, a medieval spaceship on its way to the nearest sunlit planet, 100 years from here.
Ella Spiralum and Zoltan Abbassid returned from New Mexico the next spring. Strangely, the Mesopotamian bees had multiplied over the winter.