XIWE RETURNED OFTEN AFTER that, but never opened the theater again. Actually, I later brought down a few small display of plastic lilies with stands that raised them to cover the lock crosses in the doors.
While we continued to explore, we did so in relative safety. The tunnels were all there, all working. Large empty living areas were found with no one living in them, but the automated facilities still able to produce food and clothing on demand from a wide assortment of options, mostly of the period when the politicians and media left the earth above for this underground paradise.
There was no obvious reason for them to be empty.
Rob told me that day what he had seen and we talked about it on the long walk back.
Politicians, their bureaucrats, and their media partners had all died so
