Glitterbazaar

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The Glitterbazaar on the cover of The Hive Queen

Description

The Glitterbazaar is an area in the Jewel Hive with many tents and cells with shops. It takes up the entire first three levels of the Jewel Hive, plus an extra area outside the Hive entrance for shops and tents are that had no room inside. The outside area is covered by a silk canopy to keep the wares mostly dry in the rainy season. It is not very sparkly[1] which is ironic due to its namesake. Cricket noted that the shops are not organized in any way, merely squeezed into whatever space available.

In the middle of the first floor, there is the Salvation Statue. It is similar to the Salvation Mosaic in Cicada Hive, as it depicts a triumphant Queen Wasp, carved in stone with ruby eyes, holding the Book of Clearsight into the sky while impaling a LeafWing - an abstract male LeafWing known as 'The Enemy' - below her through the heart with one of her wrist stingers. The Salvation Statue stands in the center of a neat circle of grass around it. It is twice life-size. The Jewel Hive Chrysalis used it as a way to communicate, via a message on a leaf tucked into a crack in the base.

Known Shops

• Raindrop Scales

• A music stand that is selling curved black metal harps and zebra-hide drums.

• A stand with a selection of fruit juices.
• Flamesilk lantern stand (without the flamesilk) selling lanterns shaped like snails, leopards, and birds.

• A stand with capes in shades of sunflower yellow, rose gold with sparkling indigo beetles; translucent scarves and arm sheathes with glittering black markings.
• A jewelry stand with long necklaces of little gold leaves, a "gold-and-jade headress with so many points and squiggles and sparkles", bejeweled head coverings, a bright blue "shawl-veil-tiara thing", bracelets with dangling leaves, and a pearl necklace (which Sundew destroyed).
• A fish shop with sharks.
• a lamp shop.
• a fabric shop with bolts of cloth.