I know what an elevator is

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@ -198,3 +198,48 @@ technically clothing and so at least I was no longer technically naked. I turned
around to find her still appraising me until I finally lost my patience and
snapped. "Well are you letting me out of here or just planning to keep me in
this cage for your own amusement?"
Clink! chimed the heavy iron key, which she must have slipped into the lock
while I was turned away. Without breaking eye contact the smirking jailer swung
the barred cell door wide open for me.
"Trust me love, releasing you into our world will provide me infinitely more
amusement than keeping you here. You'll see. Come." she said, challenging me to
accept this inexplicable freedom. I stepped over the threshold, pushing myself
through a fresh wave of doubt. The whole 'amnesia' thing was starting to seem
questionable. I had a queasy feeling that there were no memories awaiting me out
there. That I would never recall my past because there was nothing to remember.
I was becoming increasingly convinced that once I escaped this prison I would
spend the rest of my life in the dark about what if anything had come before.
[[55]] The next few hours of my life were no less disconcerting. The jailer with
the lingering eyes passed me immediately into the custody of another, second
jailer who by way of contrast seemed to find me utterly boring. He had nothing
to say as he lead me down a long unlighted rough hewn stone tunnel. I had to
keep close to him and his feeble lamp to see anything at all but he paid me no
heed. At one point I dared a quick glance behind and saw the first jailer
standing exactly as I had left her, still holding her lantern and still gazing
at me with her leering smile. Why did she stay like that. Didn't she have
somewhere better to be than in this pit? Unnerved I faced forward and never
looked back again.
As for the second jailer, if that's a fair title for someone who showed no
interest in jailing people, I got the strong impression that he had a long
itemized list of placed he'd rather be than in the dark with me. Hurrying down
the corridor I got only a glimpse of his young face and world weary, impatient
eyes. Our hasty, stumbling on my part, flight down the corridor ended at another
cage, I flinched back afraid I was only about to be confined again but the young
man stepped in himself and stood waiting and for the first time favoured me with
an actual look, of weary contempt.
"This is an elevator. It's a thing that goes up." He spoke slowly as though I
was an idiot who didn't know what an elevator was. "It's the only way out of
here."
"Ugh! I know what an eleva..." I started but by that point he'd thrown a lever
which created a shrieking cacophony of grinding metal gears and the cage began
to lurch upwards. I dove forward in a panic at being left behind. He didn't even
have the courtesy to sneer at me but closed the cage door with a tired sigh as I
tried to regain my composure.
[[...57]][[Consider omission of some expo and smells]]