Expedition Plan
As the route for most part is a flowered area, the bee contingent will find it unnecessary to carry provisions, but can glean from the flower fields of local hives. Humans and wolves are another matter.
Wolves will be most difficult to provide for. This is the primary reason their numbers have been limited to Lou'ulf and seven others. Humans will act as bearers of wolf provisions, and of their own.
In a gracious concession to the humans, with a scent toward a peace in the North and South Enclaves, the Queen has committed stored honeys from her sisters' hives along the route, lessening the burden upon the humans. They complain furiously when asked to carry their own weight in burdens, something the merest ant caste would do without thinking. 'Humans are all lazy and lack industry,' say the oldest Bee proverbs. Only the archaelogy of experience is needed to search out that truth.
Wolves, for their part, will not be left untasked. Lu'ulf's pack will serve as messengers, running back weekly reports to the Queen, for publishing into wax scent cakes, which will then be distributed to the Royal Sisters. Wolf song will also be composed at that time, as well as human decrees, to be taken as quickly as possible to the 'troubled' South Enclave.
Mayor Reg and his fellows will provide nightly entertainment around the campfires, skills which the humans are so notable for, and which are prized by the Bees they serve.
The last few weeks of the route will follow the banks of the Round Salmon River until the base of the Buttersnow Mountains is reached, at Round Salmon Falls.
A base hive will be established there, from which bees will scatter up to scout the mountains, in search of likely places for excavations. In passing, they will also scout routes for the blazing of wolf and human trails.
Once likely excavations are identified, and trails surveyed, human diggers from Mayor Reg's contingent will be dispatched to secure a trail, and when finished, to begin excavation(s), at site(s) agreed to by the committee.
If a higher area proves hospitable, a new base hive may be established at an altitude closer to the digs.
The excavations will continue until the myth of BubbleLand is refuted by the facts, or, as is unlikely, until its truth is established.
