On the screen, the vase was there. Then static. Then it was gone.
Morgana looked at her reparto genial —her brilliant cast of oddballs. The accountant, the hacker, the grandfather. Together, they weren’t just detectives.
Abuelo Pepe stepped out of the shadows, chewing a cannoli. “You left crumbs. Almond crumbs on the pedestal. A real detective never ignores dessert.”
He was her partner, a former forensic accountant with a nervous twitch and a photographic memory for numbers. He carried a briefcase chained to his wrist. “Morgana! The Uffizi Gallery called. Their prized ‘Midnight Vase’—it’s gone. Vanished from a locked, guarded room.” Morgana La Detective Genial Reparto
“Abuelo Pepe, what’s the best way to hide a theft in plain sight?”
And somewhere in the city, a new mystery began to stir.
She knocked on the stone. Thud. Hollow.
Renzo dropped the vase. It didn’t shatter. It bounced—because it was a perfect 3D-printed replica.
Inside, the office was a chaos of the arcane and the analytical. Crystal balls sat next to fingerprinting kits. Tarot cards were pinned to a corkboard alongside mugshots. And behind a desk piled high with case files, sat the woman herself.
She was their tech wizard, a goth hacker who spoke in binary and sarcasm. She didn't look up from her tablet. “Security footage shows nothing. Zero. The camera glitched for exactly 1.3 seconds. When it came back, the pedestal was empty.” On the screen, the vase was there
Renzo stepped out, holding the Midnight Vase. Behind him came a woman in a baker’s apron—the owner of La Dolce Ladra.
“Impossible,” Mateo whispered, his calculator watch beeping nervously.
At the Uffizi, they stood before the empty pedestal. The room had one door (locked from inside by the guard), no windows, and solid stone walls. Morgana looked at her reparto genial —her brilliant
The old man grinned. “You don’t steal the vase. You steal the room’s attention . The guard wasn’t guarding. He was eating marzipan and waiting for the signal.”
“Se mira, se piensa, se resuelve.” (We look, we think, we solve.)