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If you are going to seriously consider pulling anything out of an active Construct, you would be doing yourself a disservice if you didn't at least consider your options for disconnecting the Fuel. Which means taking <span class="mu-i">another</span> detour. Oh joy. You step clear of the hearth, and then beat a hasty but measured retreat out of the room. Once you are back in the hall, you swoop down to grab the 'stick, with its fresh candle burning brightly. You fish out your documentation journal, formerly the schedule and planting schematics for the basement, and flip through it. And of course, you are reminded straight-away just how frustrating - and dangerous - it was to work with the Nine-Dozen, to reach into it, to pull the Membrane off of it. Cooking the whole hog, so to speak, is going to be magnitudes more involved - and no doubt, more dangerous as well. To be sure, if you can save the rest of the Construct, then it will be time well spent ... right? Well, considering how there was no visible Estrangement by the time that you managed to get within range, perhaps this Construct is a bit more resilient than that. After all, father made it. And even if it was in a bad way, really, how long does the damned thing even have left, anyway? Probably just a matter of -
Ah, damn it. You are stalling again, aren't you?
Hoping that some movement will spur you on into a more decisive state , you decide right in the moment to go back down stairs and look at the Construct once again. 'Stick aloft - in your right hand - you retreat to the servant's stairs, go down a flight, and nearly smack yourself straight into the door when to your surprise it does not just swing open. Stopped dead in your tracks, you check the handle. Locked. You shift uncomfortably on the balls of your feel, trying to think. You are certain that you haven't been through this door before - it would certainly be cause for concern if you had - but have you been through this section of the house? You are so tired, and so turned around - you cannot even remember. Is this the first locked door you have come across inside the house? Damn it all, you are not even sure of -
Oh, what in the Heights of Hell are you doing? Move you idiot, move!
You would have run the rest of the way to the sitting room that contains the Nine-Dozen, if you didn't have to worry yourself with the 'stick. You slip inside the room, and take no little solace in that everything is as it was when you left. Yet it vexes you as well. The connection between the Conduit and the Nodule is not Socketed, but Woven. That is going to make things much harder on you, you know that for a surety - and little else, to be entirely honest. This is beyond anything that you have ever made, and attempting to interrupt, slave or disconnect something like this ... you know so little, you couldn't even judge which would be the safest way to do it.
