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Molly unrolled the crinkled napkin across the sticky diner booth, pressing her palms flat against the cracked Formica to smooth out the violent crayon scribbles. Bill leaned in close, squinting at the chaotic markings while loudly chewing on a wooden toothpick. "Alright, the target is the Richardson estate. Backyard. Saturday, fourteen hundred hours." "Fourteen hundred? That’s nap time, Molly. Nobody is awake." "They are awake, Bill. It is a five-year-old's birthday party. Sugar overrides the circadian rhythm. We go in blind." "What is the security like?" "Heavy. A guy in a purple dinosaur costume at the gate. Total wildcard. Might give you a hug, might bite." "I can take a dinosaur." "Do not be a hero. We bypass the dinosaur entirely. We go through the bouncy castle perimeter." "The bouncy castle? Those things are death traps, Molly. Static electricity alone could fry our comms." "We will ground ourselves. Rubber soles. The presents are on the patio. We are looking at roughly thirty to forty wrapped packages. High value. Lego sets, maybe a gaming console." "The piñata?" "Leave it. It is a decoy. You bust open a piñata, you get a handful of Smarties and screaming children. We want the motherlode." Bill stopped chewing, furrowing his brow as he traced a wobbly purple circle on the napkin with a thick finger. A drop of black coffee spilled from his mug, narrowly missing the infiltration route. "Okay, I grab the duffel bags, you disable the pin-the-tail station. What is the exit strategy?" "The minivan. Blacked out windows. We toss the payload in the back and hit the highway." "Wait. Are we taking the clown's unicycle?" "Why take the unicycle?" "It has a bell, Molly. We could use it." Molly stared at him, deadpan, letting the heavy silence stretch out until Bill awkwardly tucked the pen behind his ear. "We are professional thieves. We do not use bells. We leave the unicycle." "Fine. But if we get pinched, I am telling them you refused the unicycle." "If we get pinched by a guy in face paint and oversized shoes, we do not deserve to be criminals. What about the dog?" "What dog?" "The golden retriever. I saw him sniffing around the gift table." "Oh, yeah. Buster. I will handle Buster." "How?" "Snausages." "You will bribe a canine guard with meat snacks?" Bill nodded slowly, pulling a small, stained notepad from his leather jacket pocket and clicking his pen with a series of sharp, incredibly annoying clicks that made Molly's left eye twitch violently. "It is a golden retriever, Bill, not a Doberman. He would sell out his own family for a Snausage. I toss a handful, he rolls over, we walk out with a Barbie Dreamhouse." "This is the easiest job we have ever done." "Do not get cocky. One wrong move and you are covered in cake icing and a thirty-year-old mother is beating you with a bat." "I will stick to the plan." "Good. Now pass me the sugar packets. I need to practice my toddler distraction technique." "Which is?" "I yell that the ice cream truck is here, then I bolt." "Brilliant." Molly grabbed a handful of pink Sweet'N Low packets and shoved them into her coat pocket. This was going to be a messy afternoon.