Before she could remove her hands from the holes on either side of the box, she felt something pressing against her fingers from the inside. It was like a soft pad, but it was pushed firmly, wedging her fingers against the inside of the cardboard. For a moment it seemed trivial, like the contents of the box had shifted inadvertently, but as Sarah tugged and struggled to release her fingers from either side of the box she began to panic a little. The cardboard gave no give at all, she was stuck.
Suddenly, the left and right sides of the box fell open neatly on hinges, and some complex steel and blue plastic rods peeped out. A mechanism extended out of either side of the package, the type that might hold up a desk lamp, adorned with springs and bolts at the joints, but rather than a bulb on
