Ask a categorical question. Fourteen bees hold private leans, waggle their commitments at each other, and migrate toward the flower they're coming to believe in. The ball answers only when a supermajority of the committed agrees — and if the hive can't get there, the ball says so. Abstention is a real position here; a split hive is an honest answer. (A toy deliberation in the swarm-verifier / waggle-topology spirit — labeled simulation, no real bees were consulted.)