Day 569

We've been building up for so centuries now, burying the old under waves of detritus.
The last dregs of humanity were now seated up in the skies in their metal cells.
Tower upon tower layered along the skylines like the trees that were killed to make way for them.

Every floor has someone or something living in it, the lower floors are almost bare though.
Status is shown by the size of the air tank you carry with you.
The wealthiest have been seen in wheelchairs, well chairs moulded around vats of recycling oxygen.

Most didn't realise exactly what lived down in the basement levels, right under the ground.
Of course there were rumours about it the basement doors leading to an endless pit.
Not quite true but the subterranean tunnels were certainly extensive.

When the storms came the towers all swayed together, some merging and others falling.
With their floors gone, status gone and lives ruined they sought shelter with the lower floors.
None wanted to associate with the so-called Elite Of Society, every door closed to them.

They had no choice but to head down into the underbelly they worked so hard to escape.
Through crumbling floors and doors rusted half to nothing, they walked looking for shelter.
There were a rare few that went down into the sub-levels where nobody returned from.

Some stumbled upon the small communities that thrived down there on the leftovers from the towers.
Others stumbled into the rumoured pits never to be seen again but how their screams lingered on.
Like the wind that brought them down there, those howls sent them back up to the ground floor.

It was like a desert there, a concrete desert full of nothing but a few stragglers.
They ate whatever came closest, rarely straying from the hovels they'd built from surrounding debris.
None of them were quite human, they all had something about them that seemed unnatural.

Some realised it was their teeth, all filed to points with metal shards jammed where teeth weren't
and every tooth stained a dark burgundy from the poor wretches that strayed too close.
Not that the upper floors knew nor cared, they simply left the displaced ones to meet their ends.