Yang Qing moved to settle Bolin right next to the green flame tree, then paused briefly to decide where to place the nest of the dream ambrosia bees. The most ideal spot would have been within the green flame tree itself, and if he had asked, the tree, genial and warm as it was, would have certainly agreed. But he decided against it.
Even before he arrived, from the moment Queen Lihua accepted his request and he began considering locations for the hive, he had already eliminated the green flame tree from the list. And the reason for that was the nest above it.
He might not have liked the creature that created that nest, but in his own way—though he would never admit it—he respected its identity as a mythical race. For that reason, he had resolved not to let any other creature make a home in the tree its nest was at.
