Lily's head perked up. "Oh, we can do that! Bob can cook food inste - ista - imme . . . um . . ." said Lily, struggling to find the right word, but was sadly limited to her 10-year-old under-educated vocabulary. Really, most of her knowledge cam from reading secondhand books that she swiped. In the end she just gave up. "Bob can cook food really really fast."

Bob the toaster looked mighty proud for a thing without face . . . or a body.