This Way

As an Electron, it does not matter if I was spinning or it was the entire world that was spinning around me. When my Shorty is being tossed and turned, it is very disturbing, since I have to cope with all of the extras. In this case, I kept my lock on the Eleven I had spotted. It was just hovering idly in the soup, unaffected by the concerted waves that were sweeping through the One-Eight-Ones.

I flittered down to the Eights and spun a series of taps and flips in the orbits to cancel the wicked rotation that had been transferred along the axis of the Sixes. Apparently, when caught sideways, a Shorty will begin to roll rather than flow with the soup. After getting the Eights stabilized and putting a pair of Electrons on counter-rotating orbits, stability had been restored.

Hoping from Six to Six, I slid in to slipshot orbit around the Seven and brought it squarely toward the direction from which the rollers had come. A quick scan revealed another wavefront incoming, so I kicked my companion Electrons in to low and fast orbits to minimize the edge of the Electron cloud and making the Seven end smaller than a One-Eight-One. If we can get the Seven past the edge, we've got a chance.