Riley looked out to where the mouse Dooa's nose pointed. What she saw brought back the memories of her adventure. In so little time, less even than one day, she had seen so much. She remembered the devious Howl, who tricked her in that same elevator, or one close enough. She remembered the giant table, with the sickening monsters in an endless marathon of glut. She remembered meeting little Nina, as huddled and afraid as herself, and making that mad leap out of the clutches of the dining horrors. 

Still, something had to be done about this Gold Lady dilemma. To kill her, first Riley must find her, and to find her, she needed to try her luck at one of those buttons again. The symbols meant nothing to her. She had never seen them in her life, even in the old books she devoured in her earlier days. They were fairy symbols that never escaped into her world. She had to decode them somehow, unlock their secrets, and bring them with her to Scalby. 

"Come, Arthur. Let's go into that elevator," she said, pointing over to the focus of her thoughts. She hoped, on some level, that she would see Howl again. To talk to him or hit him, she had not decided yet.