Target

Inspecting the structural Six-Eight-Six bond was a very delicate task, but the strain was not so great. Staying on the portion of the chain that I had just traversed, I took the hop onto the structural Eight and looked at the connecting Six on the adjacent ringlet. It was not affected buy the pull of the Twenty. I admit it was much easier to hop over to that Six for a better view.

From this new vantage point, the Twenty was pulling not one, but two of the electrons of the structural Eight into a distorted orbit, leaving the Protons exposed. In this configuration, it began to attract the Ones of nearby One-Eight-One molecules that floated and flittered by in a myriad of directions. Sensing what I could of the remaining chain past the gripping monster revealed that the chain did not extend much past the monster.

Hovering here at this gripping point gave me a very close view of the action between the embedded Seventeen and the loser Twenty. I scanned into the monster, ignoring the One-Eight-Ones that were colliding madly in all directions. Mostly, the Ones would do the dirty work, and get bounced away by the repulsion of charge, taking the attached Eight along with it.