Two weeks later, I watched the Day of Year's Glory happen around me from a window inside the head of the only mecha modelled in my likeness, Nectus II.
It has been used for the first time to officially unite the Bee Empire, but it has appeared several times on various ceremonies since then. Mostly for the sake of humans who attended them.
Nectus II was upgraded several times with more advanced technical parts, including one-way windows in place of its eyes. They weren't made from an actual modern one-way glass, but used clever shading and darkness inside the area behind them to appear dark and hide whoever watched from the other side.
This meant that although I perfectly saw everything around, nobody outside saw me—unless they could see heat or in the dark. But here, only bees had these abilities, and I wasn't hiding from THEM.
