Battle for the Known Unknown Ch. 14

"And then what do we do?" asked Paul.

The colonel dropped the luggage onto the floor just outside the elevator shaft to the upper levels. A stream of infantry was descending by another staircase whilst a disconsolate scrum of civilians stood waiting by the elevator as the numbers displayed gradually dropped to single digits on its return to the second level.

"Then," the colonel said with a smile, "we sit and wait."