Inside the busier-than-usual lobby, guards moved like they were paid to be predictable: two by the doors, three on the mezzanine, one with a cigarette and a map of the building etched into the hollows of his knuckles. They had routines because routines are where comfort breeds and comfort makes people lazy. The crew exploited comfort the way a pickpocket exploits pockets—gentle, precise, invisible.
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