Twenty-Seven
Reason
More lifts took them deeper into the inner bowels of the planet. Robin noted there were six tubes in the small chamber they entered. He also noticed that this time , , and accompanied him, , and down to the next level.
As they descended, he studied the walls of the shaft. They were uneven and appeared to have been crudely blasted out of the rock, which could have been exactly how they were carved out.
“We had less than forty minutes’ warning, then the sky went completely black.” words still rang in his ears.
“We had less than forty minutes’ warning, then the sky went completely black.” Forty minutes. Even with the ’ warnings, and all prior preparation, they’d had less than an hour to get as much of the supplies and people they could convince to literally bury
