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"True..." They might not even be able to find the rest of the hive. "Okay lets do that. Lets go back home, make a box, it should probably be pretty big huh? Should we grab maybe a pot instead of a box to put the pine needles in so we don't accidentally set everything on fire? We'll need to grab a blanket to wrap around the handle though so we don't burn ourselves. Should we tell an adult so they don't freak out when they see smoke?" They had a pretty good plan, Sylas thought, now they just had to do it.

With a quick nod to his brother, Sylas rushed off on his own mission. He was supposed to build a box and meet him back out by the bees. Easier said than done. Sylas had done some handy-work around the house but he wouldn't say it was his forte. He started looking in the storage shed for some spare wood and maybe some nails. Having found both, though he wasn't sure he had found enough wood. He unfortunately hadn't found a hammer and didn't want to bother anyone else. He found a rather sizeable rock and started trying to make a box...but made more noise than anything else. Behind him, Sylas heard a door open and he looked over his shoulder like he'd been caught with his hand in the cookie jar.

It was one of the ladies who worked in the tavern and she was eyeing him, wondering what he was up to this time. "I'm not trying to prank anyone promise! So we uh found swarm of bees and I was trying to make them a new home because we don't know what happened to their hive so yeah uh.." The lady rolled her eyes and turned around towards the back of the storage shed and brought out a crate that they had received some supplies in. "Boy, just use this. Don't hurt yer'self tryin' ta build somethin'. You'll want some smoke ta calm the bees. I'll grab ya a kettle, burn somethin' in the kettle that way ya won't burn yer hands." Sylas smiled widely at her and took the things she offered her. "Thank you! I appreciate the help!!" He rushed back towards where he had left his brother.

"Uh, stuff to help?" Sylas said in a matter of fact voice when Cyrus asked what he was carrying. "I was going to build a box and then it was pointed out to me that I could just use a crate that we had received supplies in instead of wasting the good wood to make a poorly constructed box..." He face felt a little warm recalling how poorly his attempt at making a box had started. "But this!" He said as he held up the kettle, "One of the ladies at the tavern said I could use this to hold the smoke so we wouldn't burn our hands! And then the smoke will come out at one spot too!" That seemed like it would be pretty useful to him. "Oh. So...did we bring anything to START the fire with?" He just realized he hadn't thought of that before hand. He didn't normally carry around any flint with him.

"Yeah that sounds like a good idea! We'll get things set up but still a little away from the bees so we don't get stung." Sylas made his way back towards the bees and once he was close but still not inside the swarm he set the box up with the lid open. "OH maybe we should put some flowers in there to help lure them maybe?" He grabbed some flowers anyhow and placed them inside the box. "Do you think that's good?" He asked his brother.

"You can go ahead and light it." Sylas said. Maybe they should have picked up a pair of gloves for each of them. Hindsight was 20/20 though. "Here, I'll take the kettle though so you can use both of your hands." Sylas held the kettle opening towards his brother. "I wonder how much the smoke is going to affect them...I've never seen anybody do this before. Fingers crossed that it actually works though."

"That sounds smart, honestly. I was just thinking it might be smart to have some kind of gloves. I should take some pages from your book, you're so prepared. Then again...that requires forethought." Sylas laughed at his own expense. "Okay, I'll start walking around the edges of the swarm then, let me know if it seems like it's not working or if the swarm seems like it's moving back towards home." Slowly Sylas approached the swarm with the smoking kettle, like Cyrus had said, it did smell a lot nicer than burning just pine needles. It seemed like the swarm was settling a little bit, not so angry sounding.

"Sisters." Sylas said with a laugh. It did seem to be working though so he continued to go around the swarm. The bees did seem to be calming, some of them landing and some of them were following him. Once he had gone around a few times he started herding them towards the box and when they finally were close enough, Sylas knelt down and started gently picking up the bees and placing them in the box. It was slow work, but it was working! "Well, I think we have most of them, we should wait for the rest to follow suit, right?"

"You're probably right." So they would just have to do it the slow and steady way. "I don't mind sitting here and getting them all in the box. Would you mind looking around to see if you can see any of the hive? There might be more bees with it too. But I do think if we can find at least part of the hive it will help a lot." They would have to figure out where to put the bees, that would be pretty important. "Do you know of anyone who would know more about bees in the village?"