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With no way of knowing how much time you have left to work with the Construct here - or to find and document the emitter-Organ, for that matter - the absolute last thing you want to do right now is hem and haw. And yet, that is exactly what you end up doing. Considering just how important this opportunity here is, how with decent notes and drawings you could stand to learn more from this Construct than father would have taught you about Weaving and Construct-design in an entire year, you cannot fault yourself for hesitation - well, actually, yes, you can and are faulting yourself. It is just ... this might very well be your last chance to learn from your father ...
No, damn it, you cannot. Not now. Just ... the fraying choices. The choices at hand.
Well, you could work with what you have now - that would be the safest and quickest of the options, certainly. And making haste here would give you more time with the emitter-Organ too - as well as everything else in the house, but you cannot get bogged down with that. Right now, the Construct in the chimney is the only thing that can fit on your plate - you must finish it before you can start in on anything else. So, you could do the documentation now - but that would mean giving getting a look at all those different-sized masses underneath the Membrane. Odds are that you aren't going to be able to do much more than make a vague identification - an educated guess as to what they are, what they do and how exactly they do it ... but even if it was just an educated guess, it would serve you so much better than just ... leaving them sight-unseen. You'd be making guesses then too - and while they'd be educated as well, they wouldn't be <span class="mu-i">as</span> educated.
That settles it for you. So long as you can remove the Membrane without tearing or otherwise hurting it, you are going to go ahead with uncovering as much of the Nine-Dozen as you possibly can. If you could get even half as much as you did, stopping when you felt resistance, you'd consider it more than worthwhile ... though as nearly all of the 'hems' were tight around those wrapped-over protuberances, you have to wonder if you are even going to be able to uncover any of these points of interest. Of course, you won't know if you don't try. Aye, work through all of the resistance that you can without endangering the Membrane; then once you are done, regroup and decide if uncovering whatever remains covered is worth risking the Membrane for. So you take up a 'hem' again, one that offered resistance from the onset - and begin to worry it up and away from the Nine-Dozen.
Immediately, it is quite clear that progress has slowed from turtle's-feet to snail's-tail, but even so, there is still progress. With insistent tugs you are managing to unwind this 'hem' - in spite of the resistance and without tearing it.
