It's been a while, but the bees are back, and the stings are worse than they were before. The bees are so big that it's impossible to back down. The only solution is to squeeze the bees' stingers into his eyes. He's not sure how to do it, but he's going to try anyway. He tells her to close her eyes and squeeze, and he promises to join her if she tries to kill herself. He says he'll join her even if it means he has to live without her. He doesn't want to die, he says, so he can live if something happens to him. He promises to trust her to take good care of him after he dies. He asks if the stings will hurt him, and she says it will. She says she's really not sure what to do, but she promises to accept a woman he likes as his concubine if she agrees to marry him. She adds that she has one condition: she wants a queen first.