No problem, Blink. Just gotta keep Captain Panic at bay, and no one should be the wiser.
Further uptown Toronto than he has ever been, sixteen-year-old Blink, homeless, is dressed in rich-kid clothes he stole from a private school locker, acting like he belongs in the fancy Plaza Regent Hotel, cruising the early-morning halls looking for leftover room service food.
It's his lucky day; a plate full of eggs, sausage,
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and still-warm coffee has hardly been touched. Hiding in the room that holds the ice machines, he's ready to dig in when he hears thumping noises and voices.
Stumbling on the faked abduction of oil executive Jack Niven, Blink picks up a discarded room card and enters the “crime scene.” After a quick look around, he steals the “victim's” Blackberry and cash, and then hightails it from the hotel.
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