The Plan

The rest of the meeting passed in a blur of planning. 

The first thing I learned was that I had been a bit ambitious when assuming that the territory push was going to be global. 

The push for territory was going to happen in six key locations across the surface of the world, each location equidistant from the two next to it, in one big ring. 

The hope was that after the push had been made in those locations the rest of the people on the planet would be incentivised to make pushes of their own, to occupy their own territory. 

I wasn't sure if that was going to be the case, and I also felt as if the dwellers of the Furnace were going to be taking their grief out on entirely the wrong people. 

What had the people in the fifty floors above actually done to the people in the Furnace? 

The answer was nothing at all.