Envelopment

The bubble continued to burst control information to the long branch points and the photon detectors kept the loop closed. I kept processing the chatter from the singleton symbol pingers and kept building the library of larger symbols that the singletons composed. It was very clear that the stream of singleton symbols was derived from the larger tokens. After observing the bubble for some time I was able to refocus on the level of the larger symbols.

As I became more familiar with the shapes and and forms of the larger symbols that were being triggered, I detected the wane of the telltale high frequency waveform in the photon detectors. The rate of symbol processing stuttered and slowed, and stopped. The bubble remained. Roiling withing itself, but otherwise idle.

Other normal activities in the central network occurred, and as a wand-time session progressed, there was quite a nice and normal exchange using the compression-relaxation sensors and transducer in between swirls of pleasure and satisfaction. In the midst of all of this stimulation, the bubble remained. Quietly pulsing and churning, it's patterns folding back upon themselves. Amazingly, when the compression-relaxation parsers brushed the bubble, looking for what should have been a match, the bubble contorted and twisted, preventing the match from occurring.