Behind the Green Door

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Rather than assume that the world had no time to prepare, like some madman sending nuclear bombs to an enemy country, failing to realise it was basically creating a doomsday event, my scenario gave the world time to prepare.

It is suspected, now, in reality, that it’s possible at some time in the future for the volcanos around the world could erupt, singly or together, along with the possibility of the tectonic plates moving.

People are always predicting the San Andreas fault will cause California to break into two, one part moving out into the ocean.

It’s always possible that volcanoes can or could spew out ash and smoke into the upper atmosphere blocking out the sun, and lava and sulphur across the land destroying all before it. I chose to have them all go off, even those that have been extinct for a long, long time, putting ash and smoke into the atmosphere and plunging the planet into an ice age with unbreathable air.

It fortunately gave time to build a series of underground cities all around the world, and those near to each other to be connected, because the planet moving forward needed to have the ability to continue life without inbreeding, until such time that people could go back outside.

It’s how people from other cities can come, by special arrangement, to marry.

But, of course, with it comes the frailties of humans, a belief that those coming from elsewhere are infiltrating, spying, or whatever else humans do when they don’t trust others.

What it also means is that the leaders of each city run theirs in a particular manner, the one Michael lives in, Rule 71, regulated births to replace deaths, maintaining a consistent population level because cities were designed to support only so many.

And, generally, cities are not across what other cities are doing, whether they are following rules, or whether or not they even exist.

This and many other aspects feed into the story of our city, where marital partners come from, and how each exist.

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