"We were gonna call the cops and the curator first thing in the morning to arrange the return!  It's standard procedure!"  Not that it wasn't still theft, legally speaking, but if they'd gotten away with it it wouldn't have been the first time.<br/><br/>"Unless something else was to intervene and leave us holding the bag, as it were, if<em>you</em>didn't first," Heinman mused.  "But that hardly seems --"<br/><br/>At that point, the dragonflies saw fit to remind everyone that they weren't programmed to care about arguments by shooting the Spoiler again.  Two plasma blasts connected together -- and this time it actually<em>hurt</em>in addition to damaging his shirt, although the pain was rapidly dissipating.  With a sigh, Heinman raised both hands, firing a strange net formed of glowing blue 'thread,' but it was far too slow to entrap the Spoiler even while he was holding Savage down.<br/><br/>(The Spoiler takes a bruise from two dragonflies, but heals automatically on his next turn.)