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Molly crouched behind the bouncy castle, her pink tutu rustling in the gentle breeze of an overpriced outdoor birthday venue. She adjusted her tiara—essential for blending in with the six-year-olds—and checked her watch for the fourteenth time in three minutes. "Right, Bill," she whispered. "Target acquired. Twelve kids, two exhausted parents, one piñata shaped like a horse." Bill emerged from behind a helium balloon arrangement, his Spider-Man costume straining at the seams. He was six foot four and had chosen the most ridiculous muscle-padded costume available, which had seemed funny at the online checkout and less funny now. "Tell me again why we're doing this?" he muttered, scratching under his mask. "We could rob a bank. Banks have vaults. Vaults don't have children screaming about sugar highs." "Because, you great lummox, banks have security guards and these parents have a bored teenager DJ who keeps playing Baby Shark on repeat. That's our security guard. He's already losing the will to live." Bill considered this, watching a small girl attempt to headbutt the piñata with catastrophic results to her frosting-smeared face. "Fair point. But I still feel like a monster." "Oh, grow a spine. We've done bigger jobs. The Louvre? Easy. The Crown Jewels? A doddle. This?" Molly gestured grandly at the carnage of half-eaten sandwiches and trampled party bags. "This is amateur hour." "What's our exit strategy?" Molly grinned beneath her fake mustache, which she had insisted was a "disguise" and not a leftover from a previous job at a magician's convention. "The bouncy castle, obviously. We bounce our way over the fence while everyone's distracted by the clown." Bill squinted at the clown in question, who was currently trying to fold himself into a Volkswagen Beetle. "Distracted might be an understatement." "Exactly. Now, the presents are in that blue gift table near the cake. Twenty-three wrapped packages. I count at least five that look like they're hiding gift cards. The rest are probably DVDs and socks, but we'll take our chances." "What about the parents?" "Bill. The mother is crying into her prosecco. The father is trying to assemble a trampoline without instructions. We are invisible." Bill took a deep breath, psyching himself up. "I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm ready. For the heist of the century." "It's a children's birthday party." "The heist of the century relative to our dignity, Molly. Our dignity is in tatters." "Then let's retrieve it, along with every polly pocket set in that pile." Molly stood, brushed off her tutu, and produced from her bag not a weapon but a comically oversized candy cane. "Stick of distraction. Oldest trick in the book." "I thought the oldest trick was telling kids there's healthy candy." "Bill, you monster, that's genius. Deploy that immediately. I'll be on the gift table." With synchronized nods, two of Britain's most wanted thieves waddled toward a cluster of delighted children, their criminal empire hinging on glitter, lies, and the unshakeable belief that somewhere in this suburban chaos lay their greatest prize.