Zoe looked at the thing that the man was holding. "What is it?" she asked, yawning.
"Well, I'm glad you asked. It's a family manipulator."
"A what?" Zoe was still half-asleep. Maybe she heard the man wrong.
"A family manipulator," the man repeated.
Nope, she heard right. But what the hell was that?
"You're probably wondering what that is," the man said.
"Actually ..."
"Let me explain," the man said, cutting her off. "With this device, you can create your own perfect family. I'm sure there are people that you know that would make the perfect mother, the perfect sister, and so forth. With this device, you can make them members of your family."
"That's ridiculous. You can't do something like that with ... with a machine," Zoe said.
"Oh, but you can. With this machine." He paused, seeing that she still didn't believe him. "Humor me. Who would make the best members of your perfect family?"
Zoe rolled her eyes. This guy is nuts...or maybe he wants me to give him the names of other people to bother. If that was what he wanted, she'd give him some people to wake up at 6AM...
