Pride

Prologue

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"Get in their now!", a man sitting in a rolling chair in a brightly light control room said into the microphone built into his headphones, which was plugged into his central computer, into the ear of a young man dressed in a black leather jumpsuit who was hiding in the bushes outside of the window in a large manor.

"What about the guards?", the thief questioned the man directing him.

"Right now it is usually quiet so they drink to pass the time." the man said. Without response, the burglar opened the window and slipped inside. He started running silently down the hall while being directed by the man in the control room. He had just finished climbing the flight of stairs to the second floor when the man in the control room alerted him that he should, "Enter this room."

"which one", the leather clad thief asked stopping and looking at the doors on either side of him, "you should be more specific."

"The one on your left Black! I pointed you should really watch where people- oh right you refuse to put in precious contacts I designed which allow you to see me." the man in the control room pouted.

"if i had those contacts of yours i would barely be able to see where i am walking.", the thief whispered as he slid the door open and snuck inside carefully avoiding awakening the man asleep in the canopy bed, "i am entering so shut up."

"Fine.", the man in the control room said putting a pouty face on as the thief snuck to the other side of the room and examined the fingerprint pad connected to the vault door. He walked over to the sink in the bathroom adjacent to the bedroom. He searched every drawer and cabinet before he found a candle and a few matches. He lit one of the candles and held it over a metal dish as the wax melted into a the dish. When there was enough wax in the dish he crossed over to the man sleeping in the bed. He gently pressed the man's hand into the wax. Once the wax dried he removed it from the dish and held it to the fingerprint pad. The door slid silently open. He entered the vault and walked over to the diamond on the other side of the large vault filled with gold and silver and grabbed the diamond being displayed on the pedestal. He grabbed the 200-carat diamond of the pedestal and had just turned around to leave when an alarm went off.

"You are wearing the hood a gave you which hides your face right?", the man in the control room asked.

"no, i lack peripheral vision when i were your hood.", the thief told him, "a genius like you should realize that."

, he explained "We don't have time for this you need to get out of their now!", he explained. The burglar headed for the window on his right. As he unlatched the window the first half drunk guard stumbled into the room and proceeded to shoot is gun wildly.

"Stop shooting!", shouted the master of the house, who had just been awakened by the gunfire.

"Shur, Yesh Shur!", the drunk guard proclaimed letting his gun drop to his side. When he had finished saying this three more guards half fell into the room and began discharging their guns wildly.

"I said stop shooting!", the owner screamed. While the soldiers stopped shooting the thief slipped out the window and dropped down to the ground and ran away.