Breaking and Entering
The window in Cassandra’s room is on the other side from her bed, which is fortunate, as it meant that when the idiots who broke into her room smashed the window, only the floor was sprinkled with shards of glass. Which was a relief for me, as Cassandra was sleeping face up, and wouldn’t have appreciated the mouth full of glass.
The bunglers managed to make it all of three feet before one of them stabbed themselves in the foot, and collapsed on the floor. The noise of this woke Cass up, and it was only sheer terror that stopped her screaming. This was fortunate all round as the panicking burglars would probably have done something monumentally stupid if she had screamed. The burglars grabbed Cassandra, and forced her into the corner of the room. One of them watched her, and kept her facing the wall while the other searched for the drugs.
It took thirty minutes of searching the room for the burglars to find the stash of drugs, the one watching Cass had to keep her face pushed into the corner so she wouldn’t see anything. If they’d had any sense they would have found something to blindfold her with, but that didn’t occur to them at this point.
When it came time to leave, the burglars were seriously stressed. They needed to ensure Cassandra didn’t see their faces, and they needed to get back out the window without lacerating their poorly protected feet.
Let’s just say their first plan wasn’t their best one.