The Rehearsal Heist

The museum was closed on Mondays. That morning, only guards and four actors rehearsing next month’s show were inside. Lena put on a black mask and raised her fake gun. “Everybody down! This is a robbery!” The guard by the door turned away to hide a laugh. Just then, the back door opened. Three figures in black slipped inside. The first man looked Lena up and down. “We were told there’d be six of us.” Lena assumed the director had added actors to the rehearsal. “You’re late,” she said. The man pulled a heavy glass cutter from his bag and offered it to her. “Then you start.”