Field of Dreams

One-Eight-Ones and other assorted small atoms were continuing to flow from the pulsed soup network into the meshwork region that I found myself in. Clinging to the meshwork and letting the Eights to their roll-and-flop across the One-heavy surface, I managed to dance along, dodging the pulses in the soup.

I hopped off of the sieve and onto an attached meshwork. Here, I found one of the tagged 5-rings locked into a receiver zone. I was not sure if this was the same 5-ring that I had collided with to get here or not. I did not see any extra Neutrons, but then again, I did not dive in and flitter around the backside to check everything. Usually a heavy nucleus is just a little larger.

Leaving the 5-ring still twitching, I rolled across the surface and found several more attachment zones, all arranged in a regular pattern. Pick a direction and travel. I counted about 57 mini-hops each time, and found another filled receiver. Considering my past experience, capturing one of these wiggle-tail 5-rings could be very interesting. The only task ahead of me was unlocking one of them from a receiver area. I still recall the rejection jolt from my past misaligned adventures.