Hiker Finds Working Elevator In Middle Of Forest, Then He Presses The Button

A Long Descent

The elevator kept going down, far longer than Eloy had expected it to. He watched the old light flicker above him as the box descended steadily.

Ten seconds passed, then twenty, then thirty, and it kept sinking. “How deep does this go?” he murmured, as a knot of unease forming in his stomach.