Reckoning Reconnoiter

The counting game continued, interspersed between brief propulsion sequences. The navigational group in my electron network was having fits. The little side trip during the gathering was easily resolved, once the same point was reached, the navigation group close the record of traversal and began recording what they considered to be the return path.

At least it started that way. Where one of the turns was expected to continue unwinding the original path, a deviation occurred and a different meandering path began to weave an ungainly path that was generally a reversal, but it took observation from a broader perspective to uncover this truth. To the electrons that were responsible for encoding the turns and steps, it was nary so clear. A few taps of assuring observation was all they needed to keep at the task.

The general photon levels were dropping off slightly, the spectral balance remaining steady and the high frequency line was strong an vibrant. Pointed objects were still being detected and counted, with the tally reaching fifteen before the navigational subsection reported that we were less than eight doublings of propulsion pulses from the origin for this excursion.