60: The meaning of red flowers

Time: 17:05. Location: General garage, Oleksandr Onyshchenko's home.

5 days until the honey festival.

Danger is unseen, but is perceived in the air as a subtle aroma of gasoline. Stefan looks sideways and moves hunched over between the vehicles, until he reaches the wooden door, which he half-opens to peek out the other side. There is a gray, one-way corridor, which turns left at the next corner. Stefan walks down the corridor very cautiously, keeping an eye on the ceiling for any security cameras.

He hears noises, voices whispering. Peeking around the corner, he discovers a couple of meters away a rest area, without a door and with a glass window that allows him to see the beekeepers without their protective masks, lying on a leather sofa and watching a Turkish soap opera on a small TV with long antennas. They hold UZI submachine guns at the side of the sofa, close to their gloved hands.