"That sounds amazing," Liam agreed. He wasn't actually a huge seafood fan, hadn't actually missed it last week... until someone had pointed out that's what was different. And then of course there'd been a craving.

Which he hadn't been able to satisfy because see above re: hands and also made of plastic.

Which was real, real fun when you had deep-seated issues about personhood to begin with.

"I heard someone else got taken to the Toybox." How did that simultaneously sound so weird and yet also genuinely terrifying?