Lynn Miller looked at Renee Morgan, a little shaken: "Morgan, could they be stung to death?"
Even though those big guys were strong, Zayed had said those bees weren't ordinary bees—they were The Stingers, notorious killers among bees. They're aggressive, and when they attack, swarms in the hundreds or thousands appear. Locally, hundreds have already been stung to death by these highly venomous, ferocious bees.
Renee Morgan thought about her own unconscious act, possibly getting others killed, and couldn't bear it. She also remembered that, though they'd robbed her of biscuits, they still gave her a warning at the end, which proved they weren't truly bad people. Could she just stand by and watch them get stung to death?
In that situation this afternoon, Julian Prescott and Lionel Lincoln were surrounded by a swarm of bees, there was no way to blow the emergency survival whistle. Even if someone rescued them later, the consequences would be unimaginable.
