Shift Change

There was a shift in the central network's priority, and construction slowed on the entwining structure. I broke free, leaving a trio of pingers to observe and report any increase in activity, unwinding my path back down the sequence of patterns that I had intersected to get here. The serial pingers helped guide the way, and I was back at my favorite observation posts. I knew I was back before I even got there, the din of unanswered traffic washing up on my fringes.

A scan revealed that the high frequency waveform had already diminished. Deeper inquiries returned results of satiety, and indeed, the input buffer status confirmed that I had apparently missed a wand event while lost in observing pattern construction. It was good to know that some processes continued while regular functions continued. Perhaps I would impart similar duties to groups within the electron network.

A moment of quiet descended across the central network, as was common just before completing preparations for slowdown and summoning of the random forces that came to infuse the network with unknown creativity and patterns examined in a context free of conformity. A quick check with the peripheral pingers confirmed that the outermost meshworks were themselves covered with the familiar mantle that wrapped and comforted the resting structure while random time worked it's magic.