Take the money and run

Hammer paused for a moment. *Disappearing* wouldn't be so hard if she had that magical medallion, now, would it? After a moment's consideration, she edited her list. When she had finished, it looked something like this: ***-** Grab money, prep to disappear. Ring seen in boyfriend's room can prob. be pawned, along with computer **-** Recover medallion from police station (did they get it?) **-** leave the idiot (make way to Florida safehouse) **-** get new body?* Hammer's fingers hovered over the keys. She looked at the last item, *get a new body* and a plan began to form. The medallion supposedly had some other functions that he hadn't personally used in his body-hopping crime spree. Most of them, if Hammer recalled the instructions correctly, involved clothing. Instead of swapping bodies, he could duplicate one, or--if the item was new--alter his body to suit it. Hammer thought of the detective who had almost figured it out. *What was his name? Alan? Arne? I should probably have paid more attention to him, considering he almost caught me.* Restarting the crime spree with Sarah DeVrie's body would surely attract his attention again. *And one of the few enemies willing to seriously pursue magical criminals is one I would rather avoid.* Perhaps it would be better to create a new identity instead of the continuing the (relatively) conspicuous chain of body swaps. Still, stealing the ring got top billing. It should only take a few minutes, and Hammer found it hard to resist such a low-hanging fruit. In fact, she could probably do it now and then immediately try to get the medallion from the police station.