He giggled and thought: This will never do.
Pouring and tumbling through the Lifo kit, consulting the manual diligently, Manet concluded that there weren't enough parts left in the box to go around.
The book gave instructions for The Model Mother, The Model Father, The Model Sibling and others. Yet there weren't parts enough in the kit.
He would have to take parts from Ronald or Veronica in order to make any one of the others. And he could not do that without the Modifier.
He wished Trader Tom would return and extract some higher price from him for the Modifier, which was clearly missing from the kit.
Or to get even more for simply repossessing the kit.
But Trader Tom would not be back. He came this way only once.
Manet thumbed through the manual in mechanical frustration. As he did so, the solid piece of the last section parted sheet by sheet.
He glanced forward and found the headings: The Final Model.