Driving Forward

I surged forward through the soup, having garnered a trio of Shorties and locked in with me and mine. With my Shorty in the lead, spurred forward by the three prodders, we cruised through the soup at more than four times the speed than I would have been able to manage solo. Of course, this caused a bit of concern, since a high concentration of Shorties was associated with areas that were inactive.

There were more Seventeens in the soup as the signal strength improved, and I was less worried that my quad of Shorties would cause a massive disruption of the active network that I was seeking. Shorties were prevalent in many active areas of the network, but not organized into flights of three plus doublings that would regularly slam into a meshwork to keep the node from activating.

Unfortunately, the network patterns that I was tracking stopped. I had a fairly good fix on their point of origin, but I was more interested in the pattern itself, which I thought I could decode. Perhaps with a bit of persistence and patience, I will once again scan the pattern as it flitters past. Until that happens, it's time to give this drive system a bit of a rest. Besides, going a bit slower let me scan the details of these meshworks and soup. And an interesting soup it is.