She sounds like a kind of priestess. Used to be in that line of work meself, you know. It's a sort of...

[Iris catches herself before saying magic.]

There's a lot of occult significance attached to bees. They're a very alien sort of thing for a human to get 'er 'ead round, for one thing. More than the sum of their parts, if you see what I mean. Bit like you, actually.