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The laminated menu at Edna’s Diner was peeling at the corner, much like Molly’s patience. She spread a napkin across the syrup stains, a napkin covered in crayon diagrams of a bouncy castle and stick figures with tiny frowns. Outside, a minivan blared a birthday playlist. The diner smelled of regret, hash browns. A waitress with a name tag reading "Sheila" eyed them suspiciously from behind the pie case. "You see the bouncy castle positioned by the fire exit?" she whispered, tapping a waxy circle. Bill fished a green crayon from his jacket, the one he always carried for heist schematics, and shaded in a corner turret. "That’s where the clown makes balloon swords. We need to avoid him. Clowns unsettle my soul." Molly snatched the crayon, its tip snapping softly. "Clowns are the least of our worries. We spring into action during the piñata blindfold chaos." She jabbed a french fry at his chest, leaving a ketchup comma. "You’ll be the dinosaur." Bill deflated like a punctured whoopee cushion. He slumped against the vinyl booth, which sighed. "Why always the dinosaur? The costumes chafe my existential dread." He folded a paper napkin into a tiny, miserable swan. "Because kids trust a friendly dinosaur. You waddle in, hand out high-fives, and sidle up to the present mountain." Bill squinted at the napkin, tracing a path with a coffee-ring compass. "The present mountain is guarded by a six-year-old in a princess dress who bite-kicks strangers." "That’s why I’ll unleash the confetti-farting robot. She’ll be too mesmerized to enforce bite-kick policies." Molly smiled like a shark who’d just passed the bar exam. "And the cake?" Bill asked, already dreading the answer. "The cake is my domain. I’ll pose as a cake safety inspector with a clipboard and a lab coat stolen from a veterinary clinic." She paused to take a dramatic slurp of her milkshake, the straw rattling with chocolatey menace. "There’s a T-shirt cannon wielding dad on patrol," Bill muttered, spinning the salt shaker. A few grains scattered onto the table. "I know. I’ll engage him in a lengthy debate about piñata structural integrity until he’s weeping with bureaucratic nostalgia. Meanwhile, you swap the real gift-card piñata with our decoy filled with expired coupons." Bill considered this, his finger tracing a hasty unicorn in the condensation on his water glass. The diner's ice machine rumbled on cue. "What if the pony escapes early?" "That’s Phase Two, a beautiful symphony of distraction involving a rogue popcorn machine and a squirrel I’ve been training for weeks. Trust the squirrel." Bill sighed, a long, hollow sound that fluttered a receipt on the table. "I want hazard pay for the squirrel." "Hazard pay is an extra slice of cake." Bill stared at the swan napkin. "I’m in. But if I sneeze glitter for a week, I’m deducting sinus medication from my cut." "Deal. Now practice your adorable yet efficient larceny waddle." "Fine." Molly grinned.