I looooved this one so much. So many weirdnesses. Bee-filled clowns alone are worth the story, but there are a lot of other interesting bits too.
I find it interesting that the bees say "Tell us you are the one we love" rather than saying a more straightforward "Tell us WE are the one YOU love". Why do the bees want to be told who the bees love? Is it that they still believe on some level that they are part of a story, but that without a storyteller they are nothing, so it feels very important to them to have a storyteller, even if that storyteller is coerced?
Anyway, super weird, super fun, I am glad to have heard it.