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The warehouse smelled of damp cardboard and rust, their current planning stage existing entirely inside a decommissioned ice-cream truck. Molly tapped the park blueprints with a licorice stick. “The clown is the key variable, Bill. Is he a real clown or a gormless uncle in a rented tragedy suit?” Bill squinted through a party blower he was using as a telescope. “That’s profiling. Rent-a-Clown Gigglesmith could be a master safecracker for all we know. We treat him as hostile.” “Hostile giggles, check. Now, the bouncy castle. I enter as a stressed mother. I’ll have the correct emotional armour—smudged mascara, a gluten-free nut-free cupcake tower.” “And I’ll be the incompetent balloon man, a classic ruse. It’s a non-threatening entropy delivery system. I trip, I flail, a hundred helium balloons release, total aerial chaos.” “Perfect. Under the cover of floating SpongeBobs, I pop the piñata blind. I’m not pulling a string, Bill, I’m going in full-swing with a bedtime story about a visually impaired bat. The presents drop like ugly, wrapped fruit.” Bill nodded, tapping a crude map of the gift table. “The bag deployment must be synesthetic. I hit the button on my oversized clown flower, and it doesn’t squirt water, it squirts a plume of glitter. Choking, beautiful, daylight-smuggling glitter.” “We make the exit via the pony-ride circuit. We swap the loot into feedbags, and I whisper ‘gravy train’ to the lead pony. If anyone asks, we’re just two emotionally shattered parents chasing a terrified miniature horse. It’s tragic, not criminal.”