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building.   He wasn’t talking like this
back in that elevator , thought
VIN.   
    “ We also
need new clothes and jackets, and bigger pants,” Santino said. “I
must have grown. My shirt is split, and my pants are too tight.
We’re going to stand out like this. We need to blend in
better.”   
    “ Good
thinking. It’s late, though. What clothes store will be open?”
Kosner asked.   
    “ Who
said we need it to be open? Goodwill is right down the street.” VIN
wasn’t into following the rules. With his size there weren’t many
who could challenge him. “We sneak in through the back undetected,
grab what we need, and be on our merry
way.”   
    “ You
down, Kosner?” asked Santino.   
    “ Doesn’t
look like I have a choice,” he said in a sullen
tone.   
    Goodwill was on the way to
the gym, and Santino didn’t see any harm in breaking into the
store. If it was closed, then there was less of a chance for the
guys to attack anyone, or worse touch anyone and cause another
transmutation.   
    Santino and the guys
walked around the back of Goodwill looking silent and deadly.
Santino led, and Kosner and VIN followed. Santino’s eyes darted
here and there to make sure there were no eyewitnesses around. He
knew there would be security cameras, but he didn’t look the same
as he used to, so someone possibly figuring out that he had broken
into a store was his last concern.   
    Fog and the city’s
underground heat created the perfect hazy cover. The lights were on
but dim in the back of Goodwill’s loading dock. VIN climbed the
railing and checked to see if the coast was clear. He signaled to
the others, and Santino and Kosner quickly closed the gap between
the street and the building’s employee access door. There was a
huge gate nearby that the trucks backed up to, and VIN was already
at work trying to pry it from its hinges.   
    “ It’s
locked for a reason,” Kosner tried to whisper to VIN, but VIN
wasn’t paying attention. “You’re going to have to break the chain
or the lock itself.”   
    VIN stopped and looked to
him with death in his shiny, black eyes. “You wouldn’t happen to
have a lock cutter in your back pocket, would
you?”   
    Kosner didn’t understand
the question. “No, of course I don’t.”   
    “ Well
then shut the hell up and stand back, and watch a real man
work!”   
    Santino blew air out of
his mouth at VIN’s response, and knew not to get in his way. He
watched as VIN tried countless times to break the bulky lock and
chain. The more VIN tried, the more noise he
created.   
    “ Let me
try,” said Santino when he’d had enough of the ruckus. Sooner or
later the cops would come to investigate.   
    VIN looked irritated as he
stepped back. Santino approached the gate and peered up the chain
to see how it kept the gate closed. The contraption was difficult
and intricate. He thought it would be smarter simply to rip the
employees’ door off its hinges, rather than mess with the loading
gate. He jumped from the platform and walked the short distance to
the back door. He wiggled the knob to see if it was locked, and it
was. Santino steadied his grip on it and looked to VIN and Kosner,
who were still up on the loading platform. He wanted them to see
how it took two seconds for him to figure out a better plan,
compared to the five minutes VIN had spent trying to muscle his way
into the gate.   
    Santino pulled the
doorknob clean through its hole. He took his pointer and middle
fingers and hooked them in the gaping hole, and pulled the door
away in a soft swoop. “And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how it’s
done.” He smiled at the other two.   
    “ Yeah,
whatever,” VIN said under his breath as he jumped to the
ground.   
    Kosner was the last to
jump, and then he followed the other two in silence. They were in a
small, completely dark hallway when he realized he could see
everything as if he had on night goggles. In the dark he saw