The inside of the shop has a little table below the windowsill. A glass display case is opposite the door, fresh bread, cake, muffins, and lots of candy inside. The sweet smell has changed into an overpowering wall of sugar. It makes my mouth slightly water.

The sound of clicking pans makes me jump. There's someone in the back of the store. If they come out and see me, I'll have to run without taking any food. I need to do this fast.

How am I going to get into that cabinet? I have to get off the window sill, first. The closet thing to me is a ticket dispenser. Each is numbered for when a long line forms. I could grab onto one end and slowly lower down onto the ground. It's be a long way back up to the display case. The table might be an option. It's a long drop, but I should be fine as long as I'm careful.

^Ride the ticket dispenser^ ^Drop down onto the table^
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The tickets will be the easiest way to get down now that I know where I'm going. Leaning over, I can just barely grab onto one from the window sill. My heart jumps a but when my feet leave the wooden surface. Nothing happens for a moment, but then the ticket dispenser drops down with my weight. It keeps going in jerky motions that threaten to make me lose my grip. This goes on all the way down to the floor.

I touch down with a small thump and let go of the tickets. With the grooves, I could possibly climb back up if I needed to. I can't even see what's in the display case from down here. It's a good thing that I was up so high.

The run from the below the window to the case is a lot longer then it looked from above. There's a whole ten seconds where I was completely exposed. My heart sounds like a drum in my ears buy the time that I made it across. With my luck, there's a small crack at the bottom of the display case. I can just manage to wriggle my way through. I'm now in the bottom of the case!

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