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But for once, you don't allow yourself to drown in self-recrimination; for a start, you have to keep wafting to keep the smoke from covering up the Construct, and it is hard to go about in pity for yourself when you are flapping your arms like a loon. There is is also the concern about inhaling whatever black humors may lurk in this smoke - on top of getting in the way of some unconsumed Fuel as it discharges itself ... and on that point, you think you have found what is burning. Where the spine meets the head of the former boar, you can see scorching marks and the occasional lick of flame. More concerning, you can actually see smoke billowing out from the back of of the head, where the nape of the neck would be. Did ... did you ... <span class="mu-i">vaporize</span> the logic-Component of the security-surety? No, no it must be the discharge that is doing the vaporizing - obviously, it is still going on, and your wand is back in your pocket, where it cannot do any more unwanted damage.
That is not reassuring by any means - vaporizing flesh, whether it is Mysterious flesh or Mundane flesh, is no mean feat. Are you comfortable with trying - Wait! Strange-Staining! Strange-Staining has yet to turn on; it ... you are definitely within range, and as shit as the light situation may be, you are comfortable saying that it is more than enough for it to activate. Or ... hmm. Well, at least, it is not activating on anything that you can see. But where does that leave you? Are you going to try to disassemble this Organ, looking for Strangeness? Before you consider that, perhaps you should settle on what you are going to do about the damage? That makes sense, certainly, but ... like most things, that is easier called than raised. It is just another important, pressing question without an obvious answer. So far, you have seen no evidence that any Scrivened wood blocks were activated and reached completion - in fact, you have still seen no sign of anything Glyph-bearing up here. That would point to the more dangerous explanation for the noise and smoke - imbalances and shorts. The little flames would support that too - but besides blowing them out, what could you do about it? Disconnecting the Nine-Dozen should stop everything in its tracks, but besides the Logic Component for the strickening striker, none of the damage seems to be dire enough to warrant something so drastic, especially without the spectre of unaccounted for Estrangement. Of course, that is just your preliminary assessment, that nothing is critical or even on the way there. Are you comfortable staking that much on what amounts to be an educated guess? Going ahead with removing the remains of the Logic Component from inside the skull of the boar should be a suitable compromise between doing nothing and pulling the Nodule - but 'opening' the balances of the Construct would still be dangerous, again, unless the Nine-Dozen was pulled.
