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The blueprint spread across the sticky kitchen table was not of the Federal Reserve, nor the Louvre. It was a crayon-stained floor plan of the Sticky Fingers Fun Zone, procured via a ten-dollar bribe to a disgruntled teenager wearing a rat costume. Molly tapped a red marker against the laminate, her eyes narrowed in the intense focus usually reserved for disarming nuclear warheads. Across from her, Bill was struggling to untangle a roll of heavy-duty duct tape, successfully adhering his thumb to his own eyebrow. "Focus, Bill," Molly snapped, not looking up from the map. "This is the Kensington kid's seventh birthday. Seven is the golden year. They are too old for plushies, too young for clothes. We are looking at pure, uncut plastic gold. Lego sets. Video games. Maybe even an envelope of crisp twenties from a senile grandparent." Bill finally ripped the tape off his face, taking a patch of hair with it. He winced, rubbing the bald spot. "I still think we should just hit a jewelry store, Moll. Less screaming. Fewer juice boxes." "Jewelry requires fences, Bill. Fences take thirty percent. Do you know what the street value of a mint-condition Millennium Falcon Lego set is on eBay? It is practically untraceable." She slid a glossy surveillance photo across the table. It showed a mountain of brightly wrapped boxes stacked precariously near a plastic castle. Bill squinted at the image, adjusting his reading glasses. "What about security?" he asked, pointing a thick finger at a blurry figure in the background. "Is that a guard?" "Worse," Molly said grimly. "That is Barnaby the Magnificent. Part-time magician, full-time martial arts enthusiast. And he is flanked by three hyper-caffeinated soccer moms." Bill paled, his stomach audibly rumbling. "Soccer moms? Molly, those women have claws. I saw one bite a referee last Tuesday." "Which is why we rely on stealth and misdirection," Molly explained, drawing a bold line from the ball pit to the gift table. "At fourteen-hundred hours, they bring out the cake. Everyone looks at the candles. That is our window. We go in through the inflatable bouncy castle ventilation tube, bypass the pinata perimeter, and bag the loot." Bill stared at the red line, his brow furrowing as he calculated the physics of the ventilation shaft against his own substantial waistline. He looked down at his gut, then back at Molly. "And if Barnaby spots us?" Bill asked, his voice cracking slightly. "What is the contingency plan?" Molly reached beneath the table and hoisted a massive, neon-green plastic weapon onto the blueprints. It hissed menacingly as she pumped the handle. "Super Soakers filled with pure maple syrup," she said, a wicked grin spreading across her face. "Try pulling a rabbit out of a hat when your hands are glued to your wand." Bill sighed, picking up a pair of oversized novelty sunglasses from the table and sliding them onto his nose. The things he did for rent money. "Fine," Bill muttered, grabbing a burlap sack decorated with cartoon dinosaurs. "Hold my inhalers. We are going in."