Barrage

After heading out to the whorl and adding a few more pairs to the shield, I returned to the monitoring point, and began a token intercept.

... find that the petition has been based on false and erroneous allegations.

Was recorded, and to my surprise, sent an upwelling of energy to the whorl itself. Such was the reaction that a number of communication tokens began to flitter through the selection process, none of which were affirmative of the statement. As yet, no tokens had been queued.

... is groundless, vexatious and scandalous, only for the purposes of keeping up a spirit of clamour and discontent.

The intercept continued. There was to be no action on the matter of Hutchinson, and now, there was an immense shift in the entire space. A whorlic rush descended upon the central network of my less than esteemed host. In a moment of discomfort, a blob of energy leaked through the shield and began to scatter the patterns in the central network. I responded by queuing up super-tap commands and firing them off to a string of pingers. As the taps fired, the energy leak was diverted to the edge of memory where it might just re-arrange a few upcoming patterns, but not disturb the central command and composure control subsystems of the central network.