Passage and Admittance

I scanned back across the bubble, as random time had been relegated to a corner. Normal patterns were emerging as the pulses continued down the superhighway. The bubble had moved once again, to a nearby position of prominence in the central network. Distortions of my orbit continued to indicated that the lower branch point and their extremities were doing the work of moving the entire network - central and otherwise.

The bubble was churning internally, and a charge was beginning to build. I could sense the concentration of electrons as another push on my orbit, and that was when I noticed that the propulsion pulses on the superhighway had paused, and then resumed with a slightly different set of control feedback. The photon detectors were working harder now, and there was an odd flicker and low-frequency component to the received photons.

A short exchange on the compression-relaxation channel occurred and the intensity of photons increased as the propulsion resumed. In a very short period, propulsion ceased and a resting phase began. The soup network, which had been under load, was now in a more relaxed phase as the control pulses indicated a slower pumping rate. Scanning back to the bubble, I checked the charge on the surface, noticing a ripple that was beginning to form.