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over and
over. It made me feel kind of dizzy.
Looking around me, not in the elevator, all the people
edging past us were the same as well, I resisted the urge to
yell out. I decided that if they were a threat, they would’ve
done something already.
How I hadn’t spotted this, however, I had no idea. But then
I realised that the people did a good job of hiding their faces
enough to avoid suspicion. Stacks of books, hunched
postures and even a couple of hooded jumpers hid most of
them from sight. Definitely a creepy feeling.
“Well, they don’t seem dangerous – what do we do now?” I
asked Lily.
“We go in,” she replied, gesturing towards the elevator.
She seemed so sure about what she was doing that I didn’t
question her. Since seeing that screen, the elevator had shot
up and back several times. Currently absent, Lily reached
forward, pressed the up arrow and waited for the elevator to
arrive. When it did, the doors slid open, an impossible
amount of people came out and we entered. Chaos erupted.
It was strange that we were alone in the elevator but also
extremely fortunate. For some reason, the workers began to
almost hum, quite like a stirred beehive. It was agitating and
intimidating to watch, none of them seemed to come close
enough to the elevator that their faces were distinct. The
noise was dulled through the transparent elevator walls that
we were now sealed inside of.
And then the people began to vanish.
The things people were carrying lay abandoned on the floor
until they too vanished and after minutes of turmoil – during
which I had no idea what to say or do – it was eerily silent.
I was on my toes, waiting for absolutely anything to jump
out from nowhere and then realisation swept over me –
Simulator, had already begun.
“Lily,” I looked over to her, equally tense and prepared, “it’s
happening.”
Her eyes were wide but also reflected determination. “I
know.”
Together we stood alone until everything began to darken.
Eventually the elevator itself faded away and we waited, on
edge.
I decided I needed to stick with Lily, hoping that her brains
would get me through safely.
Looking over to her once again, I saw that same look of
intense concentration that she’d had when she first spotted
the illusion of the building.
Without warning, the silence was shattered.
“MOVE!!” Lily yelled out.
As she pushed me forwards the world lit up with a flash of
bright light and right where I was standing an enormous tree
erupted out of the ground, smashing the tiles and crushing
through the glass dome roof. Jagged shards of glass fell from
the sky, glittering like snowflakes but crashing into the
ground with vindication.
I yelled from the shock and darted away, heart racing and
my surroundings taking on a sudden sharpness. A massive
tree that had forced its way out of the ground had almost
impaled me. Fissures large enough for me to lie down and
stretch my arms out in had formed at the base of the tree and
then the ground began to rumble again.
The white floor panels beneath our feet then began
morphing into grass and more trees began forcing themselves
up. All I could do was wait for Lily to let out a warning call
and pull or push me out of harm’s way. Somehow, she could
tell where they were coming from and also when.
“How are you doing that?” I called out as another cluster of
trees surged upwards.
Lily just shook her head and pushed me back several meters.
Thorny branches grazed the tip of my nose; I shuddered
involuntarily at the thought of what might’ve happened if Lily
hadn’t saved me.
Glass smashing, earth growling and floor morphing went on
for what felt like hours, but could easily have been just
minutes. Lily and I were both fatigued, twice we had nearly
been killed, barely escaping trees that had branches thicker
than the two of our bodies combined. I laughed almost
manically when I realised that our clothes had been ruined
and