Mission accomplished

Alexis sat by the fire, equipped with a bucket of cold water, some cloth and a few onions she had the foresight to procure.

Patiently treating her ‘battle wounds’, her lips were slightly curved to a smile of amusement.

It… did go well. Mostly. Poor Gonyaul had suffered most of them, the rest getting away with a collection of stings, and in her case, a few burned fingers.

As it turned out, the smoke dispenser worked a spell, but with this bee heist being its maiden voyage, they had somewhat misjudged how long it would be able to produce smoke.
Unfortunately not enough for the whole way back.
And opening it up to refill and restart required to touch the heated metal, which was one improvement they should be working on in the future.

All in all one of the more unusual ‘missions’ she had accomplished and a lot less regrettable than some.

Now here was to hoping that Gonyaul’s learning by seeing would be enough to spare him some pain in his coming experiments.

As for his current state, she would make sure he took it easy at least for a day or two. She could take care of most of his tasks.

Seriously, if that was how he tackled all of his new ideas it was nothing short of a miracle that he made it in one piece so far.