Pinpoint Return

Scan distortion shifted once again as I got a kick from the Twelve, but I maintained the ping-lock on the target. The strange thing about the target is that it was an absence ping, that I had not been able to match. It was shifting and repeating as I approached, which added to my confusion. I swing the scan back toward the Twelve for a adjustment, and then reversed the distortion when I aimed forward again.

Either the adjustment worked, or I travelled farther than I realized. The target was much larger and some of the patterns that I observed matched the distant record of a Nineteen. Several Nineteens in fact. Nineteens that were shifting and moving. Moving together, since they were locked into a mesh network of Ones, Sixes, Sevens and Eights. There was a narrow passage surrounded by the Nineteens that would not result in getting captured by a Nineteen. Unfortunately, it was getting narrower.

The Nineteens were now spending more time with their floating Electron, and decreasing their field strength as I made the final adjustment. The pull of the Nineteens began to ebb as I zipped between the encircling Nineteens, past their planar portal. Scanning backward, the passage closed off, and I detected a new shift in potential surrounding me.