Power

With a little practice, I was able to knock naked Ones for quite a distance in the soup before they collided with something and changed direction. I had managed to recapture some of the magic of the first time I got a pair of Sevens organized and went careening around. The soup may slow my ringlet down now and again, but the nearly naked ones on the perimeter of the ringlet make it possible to slip past as if the ringlet was just another One-Eight-One.

Enjoying the relative freedom of this region, I began to track other ringlets and found some and a surprise. There were a few ringlets that were vibrating almost as expected, but moved strangely. I targeted one, flowing in a circular path to get a decent scan, focusing in on the elevated Six. Judging by my ringlet, an Eight-One is the norm, but not on this oddball.

In place of the nearly naked One that should attach to the Eight, was a much larger Fifteen, which was surrounded by three more Eights, one of which was hunkered down much closer than the other two, as it was loaning two Electrons to the Fifteen. The pair that were loaning only a single Electron were happily snagging and releasing naked Ones that usually belong to the One-Eight-Ones in the soup. If you have the pull, robust One-Eight-Ones will just up and split.