Unexpected Required

Slipping my way back toward my favorite perch in the central network, I tapped into the electron network in time to see that the high frequency waveform was, once again, being picked up by the photon detectors, but the amplitude was lower than normal and not increasing in amplitude as expected. Random time would continue for some time in this state, but the network electrons that had come to play had already returned to their positions.

A burst of activity welled up and flashed across the central network, catching a number of random patterns in the process and shuttling them to various centers. The unGrid reported odd patterns being recalled and the pingers out on the fringe reported formation of a triangular structure of blocks in the construction zone. I thought the formation of a cycle of blocks to be interesting, and took a quick trip to verify as random time began an encore performance.

Once again, the pulses from Random Time were re-arranging the blocks in the supply zone, but the triangle formation had worked it's way into a central location in the structure. Interrogation of the returned pingers about the event was more than confusing, since the three stories did not add up to a final solution, yet I knew that each of their perspectives was valid. It was now up to me to figure out how all three recollections were valid at the same time, even though they appeared to contradict one another.