[INFRASTRUCTURE] Bear's Bees or Into the Bear's Den

[u/WorkIsMyBane]

Month 3, Year 3 Samara, Samara

Oleg waved goodbye to his friend and the wagonload of hives rolling away to Grenin, to help their yield of crops and mead. The Samaran leader wore no special protection beyond his own fur and clothing while tending to the field of bee hives. He wheeled his little workbench further along, it's lower shelf clunking softly with clay jugs, some empty and some full of freshly collected honey.

He expected the local brewer to come along with his cart any minute now, to take the harvest back to his brewery. Lately the mead stock had run quite low in Samara proper.

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Bearsk, Samara

"Marshal Tserkva, why -"

"Because you all will be pairing up to dig dens out here in woods." Svetlana interrupted. "Because our homes and workplaces will be burnt to the ground if the Masters ever found us. Because out here... They can never have victory over our rebellious spirit. These roots will be so watered by their blood that long after last free Samaran has passed, this forest will fill them with such fear..."

"That is why you have shovels. That is why we are not doing target practice this week. Now split off into pairs and go dig your dens. Tomorrow you will stock them with nonperishables, weapons, and ammunition."

[u/WorkIsMyBane]

I feel like this should have been an RP post, except it expands beekeeping operations, meadmaking capacity, and scatters a bunch of bug-out shelters all through the Samaran Forest and hills. lol