Nothing gets Attention

The secret had to be in the pair. I scanned and probed into a pair that had been active in the whorl. It was two standard electrons. Nothing special here. They were not in my network, nor did they have any special function or feature that would have brought them to my attention. The only thing they had in common was the fact that they could pair up in the outer shell of an Eight, and when paired, they were part of the whorl.

Not always paired, I picked one of the two and began to track the singleton electron. Again, everything was normal, nothing out of the ordinary, to the point that my threshold of boredom was rapidly approaching. I stuck with it longer. And longer. I dithered in a scan for whorl frequencies, and that helped with the boredom a bit. If it was near by, I was going to capture it.

The tightly bundled spectrum of the whorl was a splattering of sources, none of which were local. There was some ebb and flow, but it was definitely there, appearing to not have a central source. Locally silent, I scanned the singleton and the zone around it and then there was a blip. Pairing up and dis-pairing made clicks. As the two electrons' orbits permitted, the paired horizontally pairing and unpairing at apparently random time, each time making a characteristic whorl-click that added to the overall signal as the two zipped along in conjoined orbits.