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While it is true that the absence scan has improved my view, there is still a limit to what can be detected, and that is due to the sheer number of atoms that make up all of these strange and wonderful structures that I've been exploring. The containment mesh perpendicular to the pulsed flow of this Eight-Six-Eight laden soup is so far away that I must use the swap drive to close within scanning distance.

In one pulse, my ringlet and I came very close to making it through a closed passage. As we approached, the Seven-Six-Six based mesh closed and bulged back, and we stopped. It was interesting to see that pieces of this mesh, while not bonded with electron sharing, was able to overlap and seal well enough that One-Eight-Ones could not slip between the mesh sheets.

The seal began to release, and the passage opened with a great rush of soup through the opening, and into a larger, expanding meshwork I and my ringlet flowed, along with a goodly portion of the soup and all it carries. The expansion stopped, and began to reverse. This pushed me back toward the seal that I had passed through, but it was now closed. Instead, we were being pushed toward another seal, but I was just not quite fast enough to get through before it closed as the expansion process began once again.