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So it is you find yourself making every possible path you can through this morass, keenly hoping that you are retracing your father's steps as you 'hop' from 'island' to 'island'. But nothing that you see ever convinces you that this is the path that your father took through this floor, and ultimately, each of the paths end, leaving much of the Conservatory undelved. Of course, it isn't impossible for there to be 'islands' beyond the limits of your Strange-Staining Glyph, but ... you haven't seen anything up here that would be worth that kind of recklessness. You also find yourself thinking more and more about the emitter Organ, and about how little you actually saw of it. But just as it is with the Conservatory, you aren't aware of anything present on the Organ that would be worth the risk of laying your hands on it. To be sure, you will have no way to know if the risk is worth it or not until you take it, considering how little you can see of the Organ; or how little you know of such Organs and Components. Not to mention, this might be the last piece of your father's Weaving that you ever lay your eyes on ... but the way that it reacted to you, taken with your uncertainty of what it is doing or can do to you ... no, you cannot stomach that risk either.
The final 'island' that you can see in the room is quite close to the glass wall overlooking the harbor - as such, you left it for last, debating whether it would even be worth the risk. It turned out that by the time you had exhausted all of the other 'islands', the Mitigators had moved on and not since reappeared, so you concluded that it would be alright, on the condition that you immediately left the Conservatory afterward. It actually turned out to be a lot more than alright, for a few paces beyond the 'island' stood a little table and chair, previously concealed from your view by the grow-troughs and the beams for the glass. Atop the table was a small bound journal - nearly identical to the one that you made off with and have been using to document the Sub-Assemblies with - and a Wise-Eye, perched primly on top of a lacquered wooded stand! There are two other devices along-side it, neither of which you recognize. but one of which has a lens just like the Eye, so you assume it to be another one, just in some alternate configuration. You know full well that Priests and the wealthy faithful commonly utilize such devices to observe the Permutations and Workings of the Pattern Above, but there are also ... secular uses of Wise-Eyes as well. Like looking for ships coming into harbor. Or spying on neighbors. Or even spying Mitigators flying over the harbor.
