Diverse

Single ringlets popped up during the next few sweeps, and more detections occurred as my pair approached a field of monsters, attached to a grid work of Ones, Eights, Sixes and Sevens. The synchronous patterns on the array of monster molecules below, differed slightly among neighbors, but repeated throughout the array. The pair continued, bumped along in the One-Eight-One soup until the monster matching the pairs pattern was apparent.

No need to wait around for a Twenty, as these monsters operate a little differently. The Twenty was in position before the final attraction cycle begins. The approach point is not as tight or twisted as the monster that sliced this ringlet pair off of the original chain. Ahead, another pair was quickly divided and as the Twenty shot out, another popped in place.

Our time had come, and in a swift and sure stroke, the Twenty shot past and another One-Eight-One was cleaved and twisted into the ringlet pair, neatly converting the structural Eight that bound our pair together, into a pair of somewhat repulsive Eight-One groups. Smaller and more nimble, the single ringlet slid easily between the One-Eight-Ones as new forces and attractions began to tug on the smaller, higher frequency, singleton ringlet.