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Without taking your eyes off of the Construct, you get down on your knees in front of it, then you stoop your head under the mantle and lintel of the fireplace, staying clear of the wrist-thick Conduit as much as you can. You rake your eyes back and forth over the Construct, greedily taking in every detail that you can. After a couple of passes, it occurs to you that the Glyphs that have been Scrivened onto the Membrane that the Organ is wrapped in might be the same - or at least functionally similar to the Glyphs on the wooden blocks, embedded into the Conduit ... but when you compare the two, you find that beyond being Scrivened in the same Language, there is no obvious similarity between the two of them. From your Interpretation of the Glyphs that you can see, their function seems to be split between compression, thermal regulation, and ... anti-coagulation?
Obviously, an Organ of this size - let alone complexity - is not going to be able to get away with running 'dry' or even with hydrostatic internals. No, an Organ like this would need organs of its own; a fully functional pulmonary and circulatory system - and the blood to pump through it. Or at least, something that could fill the role of blood. And you can also understand that an emitter-Organ would presumably be very delicate, and that it could conceivably end up damaging itself somehow. So the presence of the membrane makes sense as a way to protect the Construct from tearing itself up or splitting apart under its own weight, as does the compression aspect of the Glyphs. But <span class="mu-i">anti-coagulation</span>? You'd want to bleeding, not clotting. You check to make sure that you Interpreted the Glyph correctly - and your second reading comes out the same as the first; compression, thermal regulation, and anti-coagulation. Still confused, you treble check, making sure that there isn't an Inverter Modifier on the Clause of the Glyph that covers the anti-coagulation aspect. There isn't; moreover, there aren't any Inverter Modifiers in any of the Glyphs that you can see. You sigh exasperatedly - which turns into an exasperated sounding cough. As you clear your throat, you rack your brain, trying to puzzle your way out of this ... but unless this Glyph has been Scrivened in a Language that is almost identical to the one you believe it to be in, save for 'anti-coagulation', then you aren't able to unravel this.
Perhaps ... perhaps you should try reaching into the Glyph. Assuming it was active, and there weren't security-sureties Woven into the Membrane that the Glyphs were Scrivened on to stop or counter your incursion, you could get a clearer picture. Honestly though, if you were willing to risk reaching, then you might just be better served reaching into the body of the Construct instead - all things considered, you are almost certain that the emitter-Organ is active at the moment ... not on you, blessedly, but elsewhere in the house.
