Recovery and Resumption

I had to remember that most of this was a new experience for the pairs. I was excited with the state change monitoring that we had just accomplished and was anxious for more. Having learned some of the basic communication symbols on my first experience in the central network made the experience that much more rewarding. The pairs were coming along fast, but they too, needed motivation, especially after the overload.

Grouped back on our Shorty, we scanned through the growing activity, as we began to see signals from the molecular detectors combine with other inputs to activate a warm and positive response throughout the active network. The randomness of unresolved patterns in our hideout was at a low point of activity, and this was an indication that the current set of inputs were very familiar and well understood.

Shifting position for a better scan-return, I examined some of the control nodes that were responsible for moving the long branch points and their support columns. The branch points I understood well, having spent a great deal of time examining the various wands and substances that interacted there. While the control patterns were familiar, they were occurring at a more rapid rate than before, and ended after a shorter duration.