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From doing nothing more than just looking this Construct over for a few minutes or so, you have learned more and gotten more ideas for your own Weaving than you would in hours of lessons with father. But there is more to the Construct than what you have seen; at bare minimum, there has to be an emitter-Organ somewhere, and ... well, probably an auto-locomotive Organ as well. You don't want to get down or lost in the weeds thinking about it, but judging from the way the Construct slowed down before coming to a complete stop - paired with the total lack of any response to the mess you made in the basement, or any noises beyond the incidental settling of the house in the cooling evening air ... you don't think your father is on the other end of this Construct, hauling it up the chimney. Moreover, you don't think anyone is still in this house. Even if everyone had been taken to bed - including the servants - at this point, you must have spent well over an hour and half in the house. Surely, you would have heard something - anything - at this point.
Maker's Mercy, it must be quarter past the eighteenth - if not half past. Spurned on by the thought, you stoop a bit more than you already were, then take careful, mincing steps backwards to extract yourself from underneath the lintel and then the mantel of the kitchen fireplace. Once you are certain that you are clear, you rise to your full height, and look around. As you had noted earlier, there are a number of doors along the walls ... but of greater interest to you is the two hallways. One leads further into the house, and assuming that the first floor is designed more ... conventionally than the basement, then somewhere along its length, you should find the main stairs. The other one leads towards the rear of the house, and presumably the rather imposing backdoor that you found when you were casing the place. You don't doubt for a moment that the servant's quarters are probably down that way - and with them, a servant's stair.
Now, if you were off the mark on your assumption that there is no one in the house, then going by the servant's stairs could be risky, as the path would take you right past the servant's quarters - and potentially the servants themselves, laid out on their beds. If you were right however, then the servant's stair would be the more ... expeditious of the two options. It would entail much less wandering through the house, and presumably fewer options. There is also a third option - as there are two Constructs. And you know exactly where the emitter-Organ of one of them is. You would be able to make a beeline straight for the Construct without any risk of stumbling across witnesses ... though you would certainly suffer for it. Though perhaps not as badly as before. You are noticing suddenly that the effects of the ranged remediation aren't as ... burdensome as they were when you first stuck your head in the firebox to look at the Construct.
