Ahead Full

The parallel containment mesh began to expand outward as additional small flows of soup and dimpled packages of containment mesh continued along the soup network. While I might not have a choice in the direction if follow, I have been able to choose the passage through which I've travelled, and that makes this some kind of a network.

While I was stuck in the stream of Paired Eights, I barely noticed the continued disappearance of the Eight-Six-Eights, and now, when I do scan for their absence pattern, I get few hits. There are still a goodly number of ringlets and the occasional Seven-Six-Six component or three floating here or there, but for the most part, the scanning distortion is back to nominal.

The parallel containment mesh widened out very quickly, and the distance per pulse is impressive. So clear and deep is the scan, that I am already able to detect a sealing mesh up ahead, and I am still seveal pulses away. As I'm pulled forward, the meshworks are open, and close as we slow down. It is similar to what I saw when things were wide like this before, but the Eight-Six-Eights were clouding my image, and I can even make out ripples from a second seal closing in opposite timing to the first.