Swingshot Experience

While the Seven may have been bent toward the ornery Eights by the trio of Ones that it carried, It still had the Ones. Recalling the swingshot pattern that I ran in the canopy, where I had three Sixes - each with a trio of Ones - I settled into a similar rhythm. Because there was a missing electron in the trio of Ones, it made zipping around in the desired pattern much easier that with a full house.

With greater pull to work with, I was able to orbit lower, tighter and faster. That is when I began to experience orbital distortion. Even against the pull of the Proton that I was orbiting at the moment, there was a sideways push on me. Feint, but stronger the faster I moved, the push was being converted to a pull on the Proton, just because of the orbital link that I shared with the Proton in the middle.

As I hopped from One to One, the push remained as long as I kept a planar orbit. If I went random, there was no net effect. By angling the plane of orbit, I could change the degree of the push and the effective angle of the force that was applied to the Proton. This in turn, tugged on all of the bonds in the Shorty. Smaller a less cumbersome than the canopy, it did not take much force transfer at all to de-randomize our motion and begin to make some headway.