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You are looking after your head, so you don't rap it on the stonework, you are looking at the Construct so you don't somehow manage to jostle it and risk hurting the Membrane ... and you are even being careful of your apron, to make sure that you don't catch it on anything and accidentally dump out one of the pockets or tear it on the cut and polished stone of the hearth. It takes frustratingly long, but you do manage to get free and clear of the fireplace without incident. You straighten yourself up, while remaining on your knees, then as a final precaution, you get the 'stick well clear of the Construct - that oily sheen on the Membrane looks flammable, and you could just see yourself being the brute by accidentally lighting the Construct on fire as you are trying to study it.
But while you aren't likely to turn the Construct into Strange kindling anymore, there is another risk that you simply cannot put aside. The mass of the emitter-Organ is perched on a cast iron-fire-dog, and you are concerned that simply trying to turn it over in place will rent the Membrane right apart. So it seems that even though you don't intend to take the Organ out of the chimney, you are still going to have to lift it to clear the prongs of the andiron before the turning. As certain as the Stars, that is going to make things difficult, especially when you consider that only the back third of the thing is actually resting on the fire-dog, the rest of the mass is simply held in tension. Somehow. Possibly by the 'compression' Clause of the Glyphs, possibly by the Conduit, possibly by the Organ itself - which you haven't seen much off, wrapped and concealed as it is by the Membrane. Perhaps even it is a bit of all three ... but you are getting lost in the weeds here. What you need to focus on now is how to lift and then turn the Threadbare thing, not how it is holding itself up. So you take the better part of a minute, looking the entire thing over again. Eventually, you settle on the best spot to lift the thing - but immediately you realize that you are not going to be able to get a good grip or leverage without putting your head right into the middle of the wrist-thick Conduit running up and down the firebox.
Impatient with yourself, you resolve that if it is safe enough to <span class="mu-i">lift</span> the Construct, then it should be safe enough to <span class="mu-i">touch</span> the Conduit too. With that, you duck your head down even lower, and move further into the fireplace. As you move in, brushing up against the Conduit, they start to sway back and forth a bit - seemingly trying to get back into the position they were in before you dislodged them. Of course, these Conduit have quite a bit of weight to them - and if their speed they demonstrated earlier wasn't an indication of their strength, then how much the hurt when they smack into you certainly is.
