[h3]skffff[i]clack[/i][/h3]
The elevator door slid shut and locked into place, and the seam was completely invisible among the patterns in the coppery, red-illuminated walls.

Arthur and Riley could hear the water hissing and sloshing and churning just outside the walls of the elevator, rising quickly higher and higher -- but fortunately, it seemed, the elevator was airtight.

Soon, outside the walls all they could hear was a dull underwater gurgle.

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[b]"Press the button!"[/b] the little mouse squeaked from Riley's grip. [b]"That one! That one! We need --!"[/b]

[b][i]DING![/i][/b]

A cheery little sound rang all around them. The second button lit up. The elevator rumbled and rattled, and began quickly to descend.

The little mouse squeaked in trepidation. [b]"Someone's called the elevator! What if they spot us? Oh no oh no what do we do! Quick, hit all the buttons! Maybe we can get off, maybe we can stop!"[/b]

But hitting all the buttons would do nothing; the elevator, it seemed, was very much intent on going directly where it had been summoned, as if there were nobody inside it at all.

In the elevator with Riley and Arthur was only the mouse, a pile of pillows, and a huge folded blanket.

The elevator continued to descend, down and down.

[b]"What do we do, what do we do!"[/b] the mouse wailed.