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[Stalker0]

It’s also interesting that this is all taking place in the hotel room where Elvis was controlled by his minders in the later years of his life, which mirrors what’s happening to Koumba. And makes me wonder if he’s manipulating the hive, or is this just an elaborate prison built out of one’s own vanity?

Right now the hive motivations for the 12 seem pretty open. They are respecting them as individual beings until they learned how to bring them into the hive, and then in they go. Even if they object, I assume their mandate to procreate outweighs the desire to please.

There could be a deeper motive, but for now the hive isn’t hiding its intentions. Your in the waiting room to get plugged in, it’s the most pleasant waiting room you’ve ever seen but when your number is called it’s on