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Well ... you suppose it wouldn't hurt to at least <span class="mu-i">look</span> for something or other to open the drawer. Taking up your light, you retreat out of the room and head over to father's mundane workbench. There will be hand tools there, for woodworking and the like, which you imagine would be able to win the drawer free - assuming, of course, that it isn't locked as well as jammed. With some rummaging around, you track down a collection of chisels, punches and wedges, some wooden and leather mallets in various sizes, and a crowbar that has been cut to about a hand's-width. If you were any to judge, you'd say that father keeps these tools around as duplicates for his cracking-kit. You spare a glance around looking for that, but when it doesn't turn up in the small room set aside for non-Mysterious endeavors, you have to assume that it is with father at the moment. Your attention returned to the tools present on the bench before you, you consider how likely you are to be able to free the drawer with them. You would give yourself good odds - so long as it wasn't locked. Now, as far as you being able to get the drawer free without marking or marring the woodwork, that ... well, no two ways about that. That would be harder. If you were lucky - something you know better than to count on, but can never stop yourself from hoping for - you'd be able to get it moving freely with a couple of whacks with the leather mallet. If it came to prying, then you would probably end up doing something to the wood, though if all went well any damage could be kept out of sight.
Alternatively ... you recall that father has mentioned ... a Construct you believe, called the 'Picking Purse'. It was in passing - more or less to himself, for that matter - but it has come up more than once, and judging from the name and from father's interests, you have to imagine that it is some sort of living cracking-kit. You don't know if he has actually made one, or this is all just ideas floating around ... but if he has actually Woven one, if he is actually using one out on the Mount tonight, then it follows that there would have had to have been prototypes - some of which might still be alive, kept for observation in father's Pound. Now, you cannot know if any of these surviving prototypes are functional - let alone <span class="mu-i">exist</span> - and you don't know if they are able to working jammed drawers free ... but if the drawer in question proves to be locked and jammed, then it would certainly be of assistance. And once you had that one open, then nothing would be stopping you from getting into the others, would it?
