Chapter 9: The Plan

Aki was stunned. There had ever only been four elements in the known world. This sounded like a whole new set of challenges altogether. She was starting to feel she was in over her head. Like she was in the middle of something much larger than them, dealing with legends that were older than time itself.

“Don’t worry,” Temujin reassured her. “You’ve got the best detective on this case. There’s another piece of information I haven’t mentioned to you yet and this is our next clue.”

Aki leaned closer in anticipation.

“How the thieves knew about the exact location of the Egg and the design of the security system could only have been through the chief architect of the Treasure Vault.”

Aki felt her excitement rising. Her hunch was right! The human element in the security system was the chink in the armor, and the chief architect was where the bad guys had put pressure to get to the Vault.

“All we need to do now,” Temujin proudly finished, thinking himself so clever for coming up with t