A Shared Plan

I entered the foray in the canopy by tapping other Electrons in mimicry. They seemed not to notice that one more had joined their little gathering of congratulations. They deserved congratulations, perhaps the honesty shone through in my taps. The synergy these Electrons shared was not a regular experience for me. The hardest part was their vocabulary, but I was able to gather most of the meaning that they had assigned to their various tap patterns.

As it turns out, there is a competition amongst the canopies to be the last to hit the mesh. The later you hit, the better chance you have of becoming the trigger molecule. Being the trigger molecule gets you more pop on exit, since you get to go faster than the others before you hit. It also lets you get out of the way of the source membrane on the return trip. If you don't avoid it, and smack back into it after a release, you're stuck until you're pulled through the mesh. Slowly.

The cheer that erupted from the canopy was not for the high speed smash, but because the avoidance maneuver worked and they had managed to drift free. They decided that if they were going to be diffused through a mesh that they would prefer that it be a different mesh than the one that they had already been through many many times. I agree. After a performance like that, they've earned a vacation.