Meat Puppet
is smoother than a Sky Pirate. You know. Balthier. Not Vaan.

Then I will eat it. Everything about it that I can. Will I eat the bones? Most likely not, but I might just give it a try. I will eat everything else first, of course, so if the bones kill me, at least I will have eaten the majority of the snake.

That's bold of you! It'll be so surprised it will go into a state of paralysis. It might even be a little slow because it hasn't moved in quite some time.

If it bites, I am just going to go for gold & bite it back. Might as well.

I bet there's going to be a snake and it's going to pop out at you.

It would take too much time. Waste too much time. And mess stuff up. I’d rather wait until I’m ready to unpack the box.

You don't want to get GRIT on your hands?

Hmm. Well, mine is at a bottom of a box which I am not about to dig into, but I don’t think it’s the same publisher. I think it’s doubleday, but I am not 100% sure.

I never would have thought of that. Pocket Books Fiction!

I’m going to pin it on publisher idiosyncrasies. Who published your one?

So it can't be some sort of conspiracy?