The Refresh Hack

Randomness pervaded the central network more quickly than usual. The UnGrid was processing pattern sequences, with occasional blips from the past, back when I had entered the central network. As goes the high frequency waveform and the coming and going of random time, so to goes the cycle of cycles. I started to notice this because the wands would change in their composition. Lately, Forty-Sevens were prominent, as opposed to the Fifties that were common in the past.

Regardless of the wands that would be encountered during the next photon driven cycle, the impenetrable bubble persisted to exist, but had been pushed farther back into the recesses of the central network. Not that it had moved in it's physical position, but it was no longer in the primary sequence of pathways that were routinely accessed and refreshed. There were, however, several occasions during random time in which the contents illuminated with a refresh pulse.

Rendering patterns into symbols, the UnGrid continued to feed tokens via the electron network. It was during once of these refresh pulses that "Hutchinson" passed through and triggered on both the pingers and the UnGrid. Unlike normal activity, the bubble was, at times, connected during Random time, and it was in this way that I began to identify the set of tokens that clustered within the bubble.