The platform is some form of elevator silently sliding down one side of the chasm, whose adjacent wall has clearly been engineered with a high degree of precision, with the lack of any guardrails, or obvious traction mechanism securing the deck, being somewhat disconcerting to all but Ells, who delights in peering over the edge.
Below remains an inky black, but as they drop, all that is above them is illuminated, the trick with the lighting seemingly intended to make the descent less terrifying, as if not knowing how far one would plunge to one’s death somehow dispelled the notion.
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