Observational Fidget

Sticking to the analysis, I stayed put. With the whorl having activity during both normal and random time, there was no need for me to shift modes or change positions. About the only thing that I could consider was to transfer over to the Eight and try to substitute myself as one of the electrons in the pair as it joined and left the whorl. That was a proposition that could end up in a number of ways that were unsatisfactory.

Continuing the observation of the target pair from my current location kept me only a short hop from being able to connect with the Electron network and the array of marker pingers that I had strewn along the path to get here. The target, however, was just outside the realm of reach for even the lowest bandwidth connection. Jumping over to the Eight, while entirely possible, would leave me unable to summon assistance.

It was going to do what it was going to do, and all I was able to do was detect when it was active. That was going to have to be sufficient. As much as I could probe the details of a single pair of electrons, and watch them enter and leave wholric communication, I could not intercept and analyze the structure or content of the exchange. Perhaps if I replaced, with specially trained pingers, the other six electrons on the Eight, and the two that were oft donated by the Ones, I might have a better chance.