Over the
wall.
Into the courtyard of some
kind. Empty aluminum kegs. A barrel turned into a makeshift table. A single
rickety (likely to break soon шаткий, неустойчивый) bar stool(a tall seat with no support for the back or arms, for sitting on while drinking or eating at a bar). Two cheap overflowing
(to come out of a container or a place because it is too full) ashtrays. Blocks of flats nearby.
A dog barking. A starless sky.
The door was wooden and
locked solid enough. He got to work on it with the crowbar (an iron
bar with a bent end). Locks top and bottom. Took a bit of effort. The alarm started blaring (to make a
very loud noise)as he stepped into the narrow, low- ceilinged room. He held the
first bottle in one hand, lighter in the other. Got the rag (a piece of old cloth that you use
to clean things) lit and tossed it
into the air. Glass shattering (to break into
very small pieces, or to make
something break into
very small pieces разбивать вдребезги), the petrol spreading instantly across
the linoleum floor. Second bottle for luck, aiming for the row of optics behind
the bar this time. And then he was out of there, back over the wall to where
his car was waiting. Two minutes since the alarm had started, neighbours
probably still thinking it a mistake or malfunction, waiting for it to stop .
He cruised past the front of building, seemingly in no particular hurry as the
windows of the Gimlet began to glow orange and then fiery (bright or burning like a fire огненный) red.
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