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As fascinating of a specimen as the strickening striker's remains may be, you cannot allow yourself to forget that at this very moment, the Mount is absolutely lousy with Inquisitors - <span class="mu-i">and Mitigators!</span> If you were somehow caught with this, short of an actual act of Intersession ... well, you don't want to dwell on that. Perhaps if the Sub-Assembly was still alive, and it was much closer to a surety that you would be able to learn a cast from it - or if the thing had been Woven with some valuable, hens-tooth rare materials, then it might be worth the risk. But as things stand? You will document it like the rest of the Logic Organ, of course - then you will dispose of it. How exactly you are going to do that, however, remains to be seen. Considering the range-remediation cast, it is a very real possibility that there isn't enough of the Strangeness sequestered away in the head for a cast of Salt-Mitigation to destroy it without you deliberately Estranging it first - and setting aside the ways that could go wrong under typical circumstances, you can only hazard guesses as to what happens if you attempt deliberate Estrangements or casts of Salt-Mitigation inside the envelope of the ranged-remediation cast. You could always take it back downstairs, and stuff it underneath the Fuel Nodule, just like you did with the linen sheets you were using as rags ... but it seems that fabric would burn much easier than a head.
You suppose you could take the head off-premises and do the Estranging and Mitigating there, but that isn't going to be quick or easy - and you'd still be carrying the damned thing around with you. To be sure - the Ounce Nodules, the Wand of Head-Knocking, and now the documentation - if any of these were discovered on your person, then the outcome would be the same as if the strickening striker specimen was found on you. For a surety, for an absolute surety. But the thing is, the Nodules, the wand and the journal are much, much easier to conceal - and in the worst case scenario, overlook - than a fraying massive boar's head. Obviously, you'd wrap it up in one of the sheets, but still ... walking around with something so large, out in the open with naught but a thin sheet of linen between it and prying eyes ... it just feels like you'd be tempting the Pattern. Which for obvious reasons is not something you want to do. That doesn't really leave you with any good options for disposal - actually, it really doesn't leave you with <span class="mu-i">any</span> options.
Something is going to have to give, then. Damn it all to the Heights of Hell ...
So then ... of your current options, dealing with the specimen off-premises seems to be the best of the worst. You have doubts that you could Estrange and Salt-Mitigate on the premises safely, you have doubts that the Nine-Dozen Cleansing itself would be sufficient to deal with the remains, and you are unwilling to keep the head on your person long enough to get it back to the Belfry.
