Breaking the Loop

It had been a long time since I had experienced the bumpy acceleration of the network pathways. While not as fast as plasma-induced travel, or even the faint memory of my early existence, it still brought back memories of high speed travel. As I wandered into the past, I missed my pairing-tap and fumbled. The pairs scored a point and we resumed our keep-together game as we bopped from node to node along the pathway.

We passed a few Elevens and Seventeens that were hanging out near one of the nodes, and found a field of Elevens and Nineteens that were entertaining the incoming stream and shuttling the Electrons in many different directions. There were several Twenties as well, and the Pairs had managed to latch on to some free Twenties that were in close proximity to the Eleven that I had hopped on to.

It was only a matter of time before another pulse would land here in the diffusion and transfer zone. On three seperate atoms, it would be very difficult to hold our position. Knowing we needed something bigger and flexible, I scanned for the now familiar Shorty signature, locating three good candidates without extra Neutrons. I locked on to the nearest and started poking the Eleven, nudging closer to the target.