Social Stress

Through some of the breaches that hand been carved through the whorlic shield, I was able to sense a distinct feeling of anticipation. There was a savory unruliness connected to the anticipation. Blasts of energy coupled with the barrage of questioning and accusatory input worked to cycle a number of communication tokens through the central network, but amazingly, none of them were queued for transmission.

Still, the powerful network leading the challenge and supported by the whorlic barrage was rapidly consuming the remainder of the whorlic shield. Gaps were open and patterns were being injected into the fracas of communication tokens that were generally edged and far nastier than had been anticipated. In moments, the tokens received on the compression relaxation network began to wash up at the double bubble. As the bubble rang, a calm descended over the central network.

While the whorlic energies tried to reach the bubble as well, they were not able to intersect it before dispersion. Only the internal search functions accessed the bubble, and the outer shell remained intact and strong. Still, there was a sense of anticipation that was detectable, but it was starting to diminish. With little reaction to feed their own networks, the whorlic attack lost it's edge and began to ebb.