Chapter 5:

As soon as he arrived we got the lift moving, I didn't feel it though, the lift was so smooth. I could hear a faint sound like a siren, it began to get louder until we got to the basement and stopped, the doors opened and there was a flashing red light above the lift door, the siren and the red light turned off once the door completely opened. Benj turned the key and pulled it out, then put it in his pocket. "Best to be safe." Benj said seeing everyone looking at him. "True, true, always better to be safe than sorry, as they say." Joseph replied. "That was very thick, the keys need to be turned at the same time remember, they can't be turned at the same time if there's no-one to turn the key in the security room!" Ben said. "Oh yeah! Oops, not the best of ideas!" "That's as bad as Mathew closing the front door." Ben announced. "Shut up, let's just look around." I answered. We stepped out of the lift and walked to a railing that was in front of us, we were on top of a balcony and the bottom wasn't visible in the darkness, the only light was from the lift and a trail of lights along the floor making a path, the lights on the floor only showed the path though, nothing else was lit by them. In this darkness we had to follow them, there was nothing else that we could see, I looked to my side and it looked like a person stood completely still in the distance, I turned back and said: "look over there" and pointed. But when I turned to my side again, as did everyone else, it was gone. "What drugs are you on Emily?" Joseph asked. "I'm not on anything; it was there a minute ago." I answered. "Yeah sure it was...just like the scream before, eh?" Benj asked. "Fine, I really can't be bothered to argue." I said. We continued along the path but a little way ahead of us we saw the lights stop, but carried on walking anyway. When we got near the end of the lights, a room lit up in front of us. Another room filled with switches, this factory had so many switches in it, I began pressing switches that were marked as lights, all the buttons I pressed were lit up but no lights turned on, or none that we could see anyway. "What's going on? Why has nothing turned on?" Ben asked. "No idea, I've pressed all the switches that say anything about light." I answered. "What about this?" Joseph said, Standing next to and pointing at a lever. "Try it, there's nothing else on this panel." Benj replied. "Ok, fair enough." Joseph said. He pulled the lever down and it clicked into place, with a quick buzzing sound when the ends connected. Suddenly all the lights outside the room lit up showing a very large balcony in near perfect condition, from where we were, we couldn't see the lower section. As I was about to move away from the panel I noticed a light that was red, every other light was green, but the red light wasn't marked so I had no idea what it was. It didn't bother me much and we walked out onto the balcony and looked over the edge, the drop was huge, it took about a minute for us to hear after Ben dropped a coin off the side. The upper level was open and we could see all around it, it was just a balcony around the edge with bridges from each side to the other connecting it all into a grid with several stairs leading down, it looked as though the lift was the only way up. We decided to go straight down to the lower level and so went to the closest stair set and began to descend.