Modular Familiarity

Between the bursts and patterns that excited the pairs in to chatter, they continued to count the double rings with the chain of seven Sixes as it's backbone. As predicted, they caught another variant of the seven-Six double-ring with an extra pair of Ones and a Six connected to the Eight-One end of the structure, and a set of atoms nearly as large as our Shorty on the Seven double-One end. Yes, they were related, and the larger was built from the smaller.

It was the combination of Sixes and Sevens that were the key to locating these molecules and gauging the increase or decrease in the number that out there. Looking for strings of seven Sixes with a Seven at an end was fairly easy, even if the waveform was long. It was the close vibrations and the peak of the natural Six-Six interaction that made location and counting feasible.

Of course, I'm not monitoring everything that the pairs are up to, and one of them blurted out a significant surprise. There was another molecule that was increasing in concentration. They told me of a double ring structure that had four Sevens in the combination 5+6 ring, a pair of double-captured Eights, and looked as if it had swallowed a Canopy. Having three Six-triple-One groups each hanging from a Seven that was locked in the ring, it was not hard to see how they had found elements that reminded them of their original molecule.