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Nikky comes in from where he'd Translated in upstairs, grateful not to have missed this time, and beams at the changes around him. It was a tinkerer's paradise. He eagerly flips through the choices for transformation, bypasses the child, the pigeon, and the robot, and selects -- in the spirit of scientific curiosity -- the final option. It was an opportunity that he was likely never to have again, after all. Choice made, he -- or rather, she -- takes a seat in a booth and begins dismantling the table.