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Spoilers for Absolute Wonder Woman issues #1-16 (& crossovers)

I've had some trouble figuring out how I wanted to format this post. I wanted it to be similar to what I did for Absolute Batman's first issue but obviously different. So, here goes!

Magic & Tools, Wonder Woman & Diana, Arcs & Flashbacks, My Illnesses & Misc

spoilers for issues #1-14 of absolute wonder woman

The Honey Tower sleeps at night. In the morning, the buzzing of the building starts to vibrate slightly as the internal hives wake up and start working. On the outside, bees dance around flowers and fly in and out of the tower. The beekeeper has already woken up before any of the bees and put her all of her gear on. She has made her way down the tower and is looking out over Hive Town. Their eyes linger on it for a few moments before she heads back in for the morning chores. Urban collects the honey bottles from the Dandelion floor and puts them in her bag. She takes them up to the Cornflower floor and places the full bottles into the crafter. She moves the bottles from the nearby hive into the crafter as well then moves up to the Wither Rose floor, pulls the manual farm lever twice and collects the honey bottles from it and the larger farm next to it, returning to the crafter and dropping the full bottles off. She takes a few swigs of the tower's hard work as she makes her way back up to the Sunflower floor, the captain's quarters. Bees are buzzing around, tasting the azaleas and carefully potted flowers. She is listening to the bees, listening to The Hive.

The Hive sleeps at night. The Hive is something large, beyond eternity. It is a glue that keeps planes of existence together and universes in clusters. A layer between everything. An unfathomable amount of bees enter and exit The Hive. From each plane and universe there are unique honeys and unique keepers. In Etern1ty, there is a single keeper and they are experiencing a honey sweet nightmare. The Hive has unique practices in each setting but generally there is a system of Elders, Fieldkeepers and Drones. Unfortunately, this universe only has one and she must play all of the roles herself. Interpreting what the Queen wants, organizing help from the bees and executing the orders.

The Tavern sleeps at night. Urban is at the Honey Tavern staring at the bees buzzing inside. Some of the first bees she cared for and nurtured buzzing around behind the glass. So much history in these bees to her. She hasn't been able to visit much because The Hive wanted her at Hive Town but now it needs her to close these hives. As she stares, remembering, her eyes start to water. They eventually calm down and does her work. She waits until all of the bees are inside their boxes and quickly and carefully remove the glass, cover the hives with gates and put the glass all back. They wire up the gates to some redstone so hopefully she might be able to open the hives again sometime. She hopes. She then has to remove the bees from the Inn too but she takes her time, letting the bees move into new clean hive boxes and carefully moves them to Hive Town with her. She leaves the spawn Pirate Town, a fraction of what made it so special to her.

It had been some time since these two had talked. They were both lost in time --- had been lost. They were nostalgic and she wanted a restart of sorts after she fell back asleep. They toured the impressive centerpiece on the land, walking around it, showing off every feature and quirk it had to show. She imagined with Them what it could be, what the whole place could be. Buzzing busy, full of life, full of beautiful things. Urban saw untapped potential. Flowers and life, like how it was when she was awake.

Outside, when they were talking for a bit longer, a corruption peeked over to peer at Them. It peered at Urban and everything that was around. It wasn't known to be a corruption, yet, just a distraction, something passing by. Eternally foolish, Urban wanted to enjoy it's company. She welcomed it and showed the guest --- the corruption --- around. It seemed to be a normal encounter and it was. It was, until they stayed, until the presence grew larger and warnings were issued. She let them all into her quarters --- into the bee's quarters. Urban had wanted it, They were fine with a guest, not the corruption.

They turned to their protecting tendencies as it started to show itself. Protect as many as possible, especially Their keeper. Anxiety continued to rise as she ran, warning others as stress spiked, They went across Hive Town, littering the cliffs, hills and buildings with warning cries --- with defense. The ground buzzing with worry --- her worry, her trembling. Panicked, she leapt through the night rain to the other she cared for --- the one They hadn't spoken to recently. He was calm. He was comforting. But then the ooze, the sickness, the plague started to seep through again. Reminding Them --- reminding them all --- that she had to leave and she had to take care of the problem on her own.

She pondered how she would get rid of the corruption. Then slowly, it became an if she would. They were mad and maybe this is what They deserved. To let it in even more. Let the corruption further take over.

She heard a whine at the bottom of the tower. They wanted to ignore it but it was familiar.

The corruption: a person --- A person: someone to help contain the corruption. She --- They --- rejected him --- but she didn't want to --- They did.

Droning. Swarming. The buzzing coming in waves again. The intensity almost the same as before. It feels like she is going to be stuck in the madness; forever. They keep reaching out to her. They keep directing her around, holding her mind in Their Brood.

--- She was in agony again. Writhing on the ground. The waves of violent droning quieted down enough for her to start cooling down and feel longing. The Hive was still there and she was thankful for that.

Stop the corruption. Urban knew there could be more of it around and she could finally take care of it now that The Hive wasn't spiking into her head. She would need help.

She welcomed herself into it's tower. It was worried and tired but supportive. The two worked into the night to seal where Urban knew the corruption to have been.

--- They were nearly unbothered. It was just one Keeper, They had universes to hold together and They could find another here if this one had to forfeit. This place only needs a single dedicated one, none more. Though, this one had a habit of being difficult.

Allow the corruption. She wants people around, distractions. They let her have them all. Hive Town was supposed to be just Urban and the bees, she needed to be fully dedicated but They had a sufficient tie to this world. If it faded they could just replace her.

She welcomed the distressed, the worried, the tired, the conflicted. More and more visited, then stayed.