Crucible Connection

Pulses of energy propagated from the bubble as the pulse train gained intensity and began to tremble. Internal oscillations appeared in the pulse train as the timing began to dither. Jitter crept into the pulse train, and pulses began to overlap. I was picking up frequencies across the spectrum in wavelenghts that I had not seen activate since my contact with a plasma. As I adjusted the filters to compensate, the amplitudes diminished until there was just a single multi-frequency pulse.

As I tried to probe the structure of the bubble, I had difficulty separating the interior pulses until I moved in closer. Collapsing further and increasing in frequency, the structure remained, but was now operating a speeds that were far faster that I was able to scan from my position. As I feebly followed what inner workings I could, the amplitude dropped below the noise floor, and all I was able to observe was the periodic marker that kept pulsing away.

Smaller and more compact that ever, the bubble moved once again, the marker making it rather easy to track. Coming to rest near the compression-relaxation input section, and then expanding itself to cross-link with the zone driving compression-relaxation output, I prepared the electron network to begin processing raw data from both of these zones. As the electron network organized about their task, a tendril of power emanated from the bubble and activated manipulatory extremes of the long branch points, and pingers across the singleton communication symbols started to flood the electron network with activity pulses.