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Molly spread the blueprint across Bill’s kitchen table, weighing it down with a rubber chicken and three unpaid parking tickets. The target was number six Gumdrop Lane, where a birthday party would be guarded by a magician, a bouncy castle, and a grandmother with suspiciously sharp elbows. Bill wore a trench coat over a dinosaur onesie because he believed layers created mystery. Molly had drawn the escape route in crayon, partly for camouflage and partly because pens felt too confident. Molly whispered, “We go in as clowns, grab gifts, leave before cake.” Bill nodded solemnly, then raised one finger. “My clown shoes squeak Morse code. Also, I’m allergic to balloon animals.” Molly stared at the map, at the tiny piñata she had labeled “loot cloud,” and at Bill’s brave, doomed face. Outside, an ice cream truck played a tune like a warning from the judiciary. A neighbor’s corgi watched through the blinds with the disappointed professionalism of a detective who had already solved the case and filed it under idiots. She folded the blueprint into a paper hat, set it on Bill’s head, and decided crime, like childcare, was mostly timing, snacks, and denying everything to a clown.