Smear?

Flittering from end to end, from wand to wand, was becoming wonderfully commonplace. It was shortly after the feeling of overwhelm began to subside that I began to realize that the wands were in contact with more than just the repressive left and right branch points. Often times, at the far ends of the wands would be contact with masses of atoms

Composed of odd and recognizable interlinks of mainly Ones, Sixes, Sevens and Eights, it seemed that the contact masses may have once been as animated as Ben. This was deduced by the often present Seven-Six-Six-Seven-Six-Six strands. It was good that I was able to race back to the branch-point at will — a luxury afforded by the wands composed of Forty-Sevens.

Having increased confidence, I began to follow the far ends of the wands, applying the same trick that I used to look at both branch points, I began to bounce from one branch point to the other — it seemed that at times, the wand with the many points would switch form one branch point to another, while the single edged was rarely found down the left side.