Above and behind, ingrained metal vines decorated the walls. They encapsulated all but the blurry glass in front. The three girls may as well have hidden in a refrigerator, cold and insulated as they were, perhaps even immune to nuclear fallout? Jess had enough faith in Valerie to forget fear, yet enough uncertainty to feel anxious. How would the human resistance greet her? The question hit her over the head, again and again.
Answers came when the darkness opened, like a flap, to signs of civilization. Below them, on the other side of the glass, lay a field of concrete surrounded by the rock of an underground cavern. The artificial and natural features encompassed an industrial underworld, one both alien and earthly. Several aircraft stationed below caught Jessica's fascination, a series
