Hide and Seek

I almost missed it. The trigger pulse was hiding behind a close trade. The trade was not exact, and by changing my perspective, just a little closer, just a slightly different angle, I was able to catch the head and tail pulses that bracketed the transfer. The deep scan did not reveal it easily. I had to trade depth for speed.

After making several dozen small hops and trades, sometimes across a split One-Eight-One, I was close enough to the input pathway that the trigger pulses were clear and easy to see. If you are too far away, then the fields produced by the transfer have time to co-mingle and cancel. Once closer, it becomes impossible to miss, since it is clearly a trade transaction and both pulses are clearly visible.

There were several Elevens and a few Twenties in the trigger zone, with the occasional Seventeen dancing among them along with the usual and customary soup of One-Eight-Ones keeping everything flowing. Then I spotted something interesting. A Twelve roaming along the field of Elevens. It makes sense that Twelves exist, but they are very easy to mistake for an Eleven in a quick scan. This one was found because it was charged the other way, and double.