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Whether this is lubricant, blood substitute or just discharged waste from the Membrane it seems that this stuff has a way of ... permeating skin. As redouble your efforts to scour the mess off of your hands, you offer up a quick and silent warding prayer ... not that you think you are making a mistake, getting this on your hands, just -
The Membrane is now moving and flexing. Not the Nine-Dozen, which has been trembling and undulating since you first saw it - the Membrane itself. You have no idea how, considering there doesn't appear to be any musculature to the Sub-Assembly, but it is clearly moving, wiggling and flopping independently from the Nodule. Most of this movement is centered on the edges of the uncovered portions of the Nodule. It isn't immediately clear what it is doing - or attempting to do. Is it injured? Is this is death throes? Is it trying to wrap or otherwise adhere itself tighter to the Nine-Dozen, to increase the resistance in the 'hems'? Could it be that it is trying to re-wrap itself? You judge the latter of these options to be the least likely - as it would be the most difficult to Weave, especially for a Sub-Assembly so thoroughly unendowed by brawn or Logic. But yet that seems to be what is happening here. As you watch, the fringes of the uncovered portions are being encroached by the Membrane as they wiggle, squeeze and shuffle their way forward. Intermittently, one of the 'hems' flops, slapping itself loosely against the body of the Nodule - sometimes over an uncovered portion, sometimes over a covered portion, and sometimes onto the cut and polished stone hearth beneath you, or fruitlessly through the air. Most just flap loose, but when one hits home against the body of the Nodule it holds itself fast - and a swath of the Nine-Dozen that took you minutes to uncover is covered again in seconds.
There was that Clause in the Glyphs you saw on the outer surface of the Membrane - was it for 'compression' or 'contraction'? Maker's Mercy, it certainly is a good thing that you took notes if you cannot even remember that! But could a simple Glyph - no, a simple Clause of a simple Glyph be responsible for this? You don't think so. As much as you want to see the emitter-Organ, you are starting to think that the Logic-Organ of this Construct is going to be the real score. Of course, at the rate you are working the 'hems' here, you it will probably be some time before you are finished here - or you end up throwing in the towel and moving on, more like. It is unfortunate, but had serious doubts that you were going to be able to unwrap the entire Membrane before this ability manifested itself. Now, not only are you going to have to work through increasing resistance, you are going to have to defend that progress. And that prospect is not made easier by the lack of any discernible rhyme or reason to when the Membrane makes those floundering slaps - or when those slaps will manage to hold fast or not.
