Between parallel pairs of counter-rotating solid flat hex city-grids, a passage of thick and flattened dead words, many of which are familiar, and might almost constitute a font, if they weren't actually just family members. In the hive, all bees are half-sisters of each other (source... oral communication from someone who claimed to know).     In the book was the story of the bees, told in secret words shaped from the bodies of the dead.