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This is an my ordering of all the hidden text messages located within the distorted images at www.ilovebees.com As you can see it makes a nice little story when ordered right.
This took a lot of time to root through all text hidden in the images at www.ilovebees.com
Theres another version at http://bees.netninja.com/wiki/index.php?title=Story
: Everything died, and I died with it, but after a timeless time I began to
: dream, and this is what I dreamed.
: There was once a fell enchantment that broke apart a mighty castle, slaying
: many guards and reaching through the Inner Keep to lay low the Queen that
: held dominion there and leave but a hollow crown behind. When her Queen
: died, the Widow awoke. She was driven by a single need, which was to
: return her Queen to splendor.
: To carry out her task, the Widow came with three tools: an empty lantern, a
: staff made of bone, and a sharp knife. When she had made sure of her
: tools, she opened her eyes and found herself in Hell, which was a dark
: place where no birds sang.
: Other than the Widow, two alone had escaped destruction. The Sleeping
: Princess lay in a chamber of the dungeon in a coffin of glass where the
: Widow could not hear her breathing. Meanwhile, the Pious Flea was so small
: that even the Widow, with her sharp eyes, could hardly see him, and when
: she looked his way, he hid.
: Blind and uncertain in the darkness, the Widow needed light to use her tools,
: but the only light came from a few scattered fireflies. The Widow waited
: until one came close, then grabbed it with her bony hands and trapped it
: in her lantern. After some time, she found the firefly had gone, so she
: caught another and used it for light, and another when that one too had
: gone.
: By the light of her lantern, she began walking through Hell toward the broken
: body of her Queen. Searching with her lantern in one hand and her staff in
: the other, she discovered that Hell was made of hot dry sand. Long and
: long she walked until she came to the remnants of the castle's outer wall,
: but the wall was low and broken, and the Widow passed through like the
: bleak wind. Within, she noticed what looked like a chip of precious ruby
: from the Queen's crown, no bigger than a fly. Around it lay many broken
: blocks from the ruined castle, scattered across a wide plain of lodestone.
: Continuing on her quest, she spied another chip of precious stone, this
: time a sapphire no bigger than a winged ant, glinting the cobbles of the
: courtyard before the walls of the Inner Keep. Instead of carrying them
: with her, she scratched the ruby and each of the greater blocks with her
: knife, marking it as part of her Queen's domain.
: At the gates of the Inner Keep all the guards were dead but one, who when the
: palace was blasted by enchantment had not died, but had been witched into
: the form of a hideous Manticore. The Widow said, "I am the servant of
: your Queen, and I have walked up out of Hell to prepare this Keep for her
: return. Let me pass." But the Manticore did not know her, and still
: he barred the way. So the Widow drew her knife and slew the Manticore and
: the way was open.
: She walked through the empty corridors of the Keep searching for her Queen,
: past the bodies of her servants and subjects that lay dead or enchanted.
: The Queen was gone, and in her place lay only an empty crown. By great
: enchantment she had been mazed in mirrors, and lay upon a lodestone floor
: amongst only her reflections. Long and long the Widow stood in thought. A
: firefly flew out from the Queen's clockcase. Catching it in her hands, the
: Widow asked it the time. "Almost dawn," it said, but the Widow
: said, "The day will break and the sun will rise when the Queen
: returns to rule, and further let it be known that retribution on any who
: hinder the return of the Queen will be swift and terrible." Then she
: raised her bony staff and speaking a spell, beheld herself within the
: mirrors: and beholding herself, was within them. And there, with the crown
: still upon her brow, lay the Queen. At last she had come to the body of
: her lady. The Queen lay cut and still and cold.
: To tend her, the widow would need light to work by. Studying the fireflies,
: she found she could fit many more inside her lantern, and this she did. To
: mend the queen's cuts the Widow took her sharp knife and peeled skin from
: the bodies of her subjects, while the Queen's new eyes and ears she cut
: from those who had been her most trusted servants. And when this was so,
: the Widow worked on, dry as sticks and patient as rust, driven by a single
: need, which was to return her Queen to splendor. She cut her a new mouth
: and fed her with fireflies and cakes of sand, and at last the Queen's
: heart began to beat. At the feel of the Queen's pulse beneath her bony
: fingers, the Widow next took thought to proclaim through all the kingdom
: and into other lands that time when her sovereign would once more be fit
: to rule.