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You glance down the apron pocket with the Conduit pinned into the crook of your left arm leads into. But the more you look at it, the more sure that you aren't actually going to need it - at least, not right away. If you accept for a moment that this Construct is not capable of auto-locomotion, and that someone is on the other end of it - wherever exactly the other end of it may be - hauling it upstairs for ... some reason or other. If you were to grab onto the damned thing, would they immediately jump to the conclusion that you had? Well ...no, probably not. For a start, from what you have seen of the footer and ashboxes, you can tell that this is a properly designed chimney - not some cheap, straight-shot tube. It has chokes, and shelves and throats - which are all places where a Construct could get fouled up on itself and stuck. That would be the most reasonable assumption, by far. More than that, you would only even consider that someone had grabbed on the other end if you had reason to believe that someone else was in the house with you. So far, you have not seen or heard anything that would suggest there is anyone else in the house ... but what of this hypothetical hauler upstairs? If they had heard the mess you made of the preserving glass in the room with the sausages ... then yes, the thought that you were on the other end of the Construct would surely come to them. But if they had heard all of that, wouldn't they have come down to find the source of the noise?
Of course, there is an assumption that you are making right now - that they didn't come down, or have some way of remotely investigating the basement. Now, you consider yourself pretty observant, and you doubt with the relatively open floor plan of the basement you wouldn't have picked up on someone else being down there with you ... but the possibility of a remote investigation ... that is certainly a disquieting thought. Especially when you consider it alongside the Mysterious grass that Aldoin had planted all throughout his basement. While he might have passed it off as some experiment or something in that vein, you have no doubt that it was once part of a security-surety of some manner or other. And now that you have seen two different chests both located inconveniently in the landings of two different basement stairs, you are more and more convinced that whatever was supposed to be in those chests was part of the whole system. The question on your mind right now is if the Witch who set up the Constructs in the chimneys -
