up there in the clouds, blue skies and natural light envelop us, we are mesmerized, a momentary vertigo takes hold. you must understand that after years on the surface we are overwhelmed by the experience. tears in our eyes.
the lift is a transparent sphere, it travels super fast until it gets to the beginning of the second level where it starts to slow down. we soak up the view, she's pointing at things on the ground, i can make out familiar streets and see plumes of smoke rising. it's filthy down there.
as we ascend we check our weapons. in all probability they will be removed from us as we enter the high levels.
the access portol of the lift is a domed building in the red light district, it is guarded by a force feild and the automated security is beyond understanding let alone explaination, the high levels technology is far more advanced than the low level, it's basically magick. we were given a hundred numerical algorithm that allowed us through the field into the sphere only the numbers were in a form of symbols, lucy's parents were going to meet us at the high level portal and give us the exit symbol. however we were now up in the atmosphere far above the surface, looking upwards i could only see clouds.
we exchanged a look, something was very wrong. we were leaving the earths atmosphere.
the sphere suddenly darkened and became opaque, there was a small screen shaped like a long rectangle and we stared in disbelief as the earth receeded in the distance. what the fuck!