To Catch a Thief | Peter Quill

Part 4

"The same hologram system used in Vegas was used here, too," Gamora informed. "The Norway police told us the case the Space Stone necklace was in was supposed to be the most secure in the world, but it's not anymore. The case has bulletproof glass and sensors running every which way. There is also a metal box below it where the necklace is stored at night, so no one ever needs to touch it. SL must be good at picking locks or has a tool that can break into anything. One thing's for sure, SL must have friends in high places to get him equipment in a foreign country."

"No kidding."

"And the museum still has no idea when this happened," Kraglin added. "They only realized it was missing when the hologram shut off and underneath it was a paper with lyrics on it. We figure the theft happened three days before since it took that long for the hologram from Vegas to trigger off."

"What were the lyrics this time?" You asked as Kraglin handed you a picture of the paper with the lyrics on it.

It's magic you know

Never believe, it's not so

It's magic, you know

Sorry, SL

"Do you recognize these lyrics at all, music expert?" Gamora asked with a hopeful smirk.

"No, it's a little vague, but I'll do some digging. Do you have any idea how he did this?"

"Magic, according to him," Kraglin insinuated, making you and Gamora shake your heads. "It's crazy how Harry Houdini died from getting punched in the stomach, but I guess, later it was found out he had acute appendicitis. He may have been one of the best escapologists, but no one can escape death." You narrowed your eyes at him. How did he know the randomest things and share these things at the most inconvenient times?

"Interesting Kraglin, really, but there's no such thing as magic," Gamora declared. "We need to try and figure out a plausible way for how he managed to do this."

"Abracadabra," Kraglin chimed in, twiddling his fingers in the air.

Kraglin and Gamora got to work looking over the evidence the Norway police sent over by email. Kraglin would be flying out later this afternoon to collect anything physical he could find and bring it back to further examine it.

You sat in your chair listening to the song Magic by Pilot after doing a Google search on the lyrics. From your understanding, it's a happy cheerful song. It's about loving life and not taking every day for granted. It's short and to the point. SL could've forgiven himself for doing the things he did in his past, and instead of dwelling on them any further he's moving on. He was finally looking to better days ahead of him, and you were happy for him. Both his last songs were uplifting and this one seems like he's happier.

"Find anything, YN?"

"I did and last night Luis gave me some insights as well..." You filled them in on what you found out from Luis and what you were thinking with the new song lyrics.

Gamora wanted you to search the database for anything related to Space-Legend or Star-Leader while she got Kraglin ready for his trip. But like always you found nothing on the names. Then, you remembered SL exposed a few companies a couple years ago. You ran a search, but without the company names, it would be hard to narrow down the long endless list related to the mistreatment of animals.

SL had to of committed previous crimes before this, but with no leads you needed to move on to something else. With Gamora watching the Vegas footage, you started on the two months worth of camera footage the Norway museum sent over.