Glitterbazaar
Description
The Glitterbazaar is an area in the Jewel Hive with many tents and cells containing 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 which don't have room to be inside. The outside area is covered by a silk canopy to keep the wares mostly dry in the rainy season. It is not said to be particularly sparkly, which is ironic due to its namesake. Cricket noted that the shops are not organized in any specific way, merely squeezed into whatever space that is available.
In the middle of the first floor, there is the Salvation Statue, which is similar to the Salvation Mosaic in Cicada Hive. It depicts a triumphant statue of Queen Wasp, carved in stone with ruby eyes, holding an unrealistically shiny Book of Clearsight to the sky while impaling a LeafWing -- an abstract male LeafWing known as 'The Enemy' -- through the heart with one of her wrist stingers. The Salvation Statue stands in the center of a neat circle of grass. It is two times the size of an actual dragon. The Jewel Hive Chrysalis uses it as a way to communicate, via a message on a leaf tucked into a crack in the base.
History
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Sundew mentioned the Glitterbazaar when explaining how she got Blue's flamesilk.
Known Shops
- A music stand selling curved black metal harps and zebra-hide drums
- A stand with a selection of fruit juices (On the cover)
- 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 (On the cover)
- A lamp shop (On the cover)
- A fabric shop with bolts of cloth and rugs (On the cover)
- A bookshop (On the cover)
- A bar or restaurant (On the cover)
- A spice shop (On the cover)
- A grocery shop selling vegetables and fish (On the cover)
- A shop selling bracelets and necklaces (On the cover)
Trivia
- Based on the bar/restaurant in the bottom-left corner of the cover, it can be assumed that at least some of the Hives have indoor plumbing.
