" People are like bees. They’re all workers who could be queens, with the right stuff, but once a queen-making has begun, it can’t be reversed. A bee that’s halfway a queen can’t turn back into a worker. She’d starve. She must keep growing and then she must leave. "

― Natasha Pulley , The Bedlam Stacks (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #2)