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KinterSylvanian Wolves have long prided themselves in their speed,
and their ability to sing and share song with their comrades. 
Naturally, they came to the forefront as messengers of the Queen, 
and were important in expanding the reach of Queen zzzzz'Drom and 
the Queens before her.

However, they had one drawback. As singers, they often changed the 
songs subtly as they ran, at first, for aesthetic reasons. Over 
centuries of service, however, they had become bolder and bolder in 
these changes. Orders from the Queen could leave Hive Home with acid 
tones, and be sung into praise by the time they reached the Hives of 
the Queen's sisters. Taxes on the Beasts could be sung into taxes on 
Humans, as well.

This flaw was recognized by the Queens, so important proclamations 
and laws were laboriously scented into hard beewax cakes, and carried 
in small head hives strapped to a messenger wolf's head. But this 
takes time--time dependent messages are still carried in wolf song,
and their content is at the mercy of the Beasts. 

An uneasy alliance exists between Beasts and Bees, one in which the 
Queen winks the antenna at Wolf changes of her tax rates and other 
song orders, often at the expense of the Humans. This corruption of 
the communication system is thought to have led to some of the unrest 
in the Human Enclaves.

The speed of the wolf over the bee, allows the Queen to control wide 
areas of empire, and to enforce control of housing, breeding, and food 
production. The corruption of her communication is a price she is 
willing to pay, in her infallible wisdom.


The Editor


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