Entangled Exit

While no buffers had been purged, and in fact, continued to fill, there was a sense of satisfaction present in the central network. As the propulsion sequence resumed a normal pace, I noted the separation and stowage commands that were forwarded to the long branch points. At they were executed and completed, the long branch points were shifted to neutral and allowed to respond to the natural oscillations that emanated from the propulsion sequence.

Each propulsion pulse reversed a previous displacement and after just a few doublings of the propulsion cycle, I began to sense the clatter of multiple waveforms that escaped the concentration of people and their networks that has remained gathered and engaged in compression-relaxation communication. Familiar patterns once again washed up on the receivers and a flood of tokens became recognizable over several different frequencies and inflections.

After same brief interaction with a few of the networks, interposed with odd shuffles and slides performed by the lower propulsive branch points, a regular pattern was queued once again. The roil of tokens received via the compression channel increased in intensity as the long branch points were commanded to make brief friendly contact with other people that were nearby. As the new pattern began executing, the signal level from escaped network patterns diminished in amplitude and compression-relaxation inputs became impossible to resolve.