I screamed with all my might as I grabbed at the dirt wall that was slowly being revealed. I tried jumping up and grabbing the ground above me, but it was much too te for that. I tried burrowing into the wall, first with my hands and then with my head, but I was moving too fast for that to be viable. I then sat there with my face poio the sky and with tears in my eyes. I saw Sarah looking down at me in horror, and I saw the shadows moving behind her. I turned my face away in order to protect myself from the vision of those infernal things, and I felt them swoop and dive over me, entering the dirt and ing right back out to torment me evermore. I rolled over onto my bad started swiping at the shadows, my hands and arms going right through them and being torn up by the teeth and cws that the shadows wielded. I stood up in the elevator and started scrabbling at the air and trying to ect with anything, trying to hurt them who would hurt me. I did not realize that the elevator was only supported by a beam in the middle, and because I was moving from side to side, I suddenly fell down from between the elevator and the wall, only saving myself by grabbing onto the side and hanging on as the elevator pletely flipped on its side. The ptform was now fag at a pletely vertical angle, and it lummeting straight to the ground because I ulling it down by being at the bottom. I was not terrified, because I assumed this to be another halluation, like the spiders or shadows. I could not have been more wrong. The elevator opened up to a cavern that was so big I could not see any end of it from where I was falling. Carts full of preetals ripped by on supercharged rails, and I khat I had to act quickly, because it felt so real that I wasn’t willing to take any ces. I had to focus, because the carts were going so fast that if I missed, I would not have any more ces and would probably fall straight to the ground, as far away and invisible as it was. So I let go and fell into the open air, and I fell directly onto a mi full of crystalline rocks. I thought the skin on my back had been pierced, so I rolled over and tried to feel for the hole, but there wasn’t any, and my skin had probably just been pushed in, and the rocks did not actually have sharp enough edges to puncture human flesh.

  At the start of the ride, I could not see or hear in the cavern other than the quiet whoosh of mis flying by and the occasional phosphoresce of certain fancier metals and stones. I id down again, careful to find a pce where the rocks would not stab into my back, and looked up towards the ceiling. I saw several worker drones sving away at the rock above, trying to carve those preetals out of the Earth itself. I didn’t think they were doing very well, because I could see their rea every time something actually worth saving ulled out, and those reas did not e very often at all. I tried to call out to them, but either they could not hear me or their programming did not allow them to respond to outside influehe carts seemed to be going much slower when pared to how I viewed them from above, and it was only after I stuck my hand out of the cart that I actually realized how fast we were going. My ha backwards and it was only because I moved extremely quickly that my hand was not broken backwards against the wind.

  I saw above me some kind of light, and I looked up to see that one of the stone holes in the ground was emitting light, and it was streaming into the cavern and revealing the damage that had been doo the underground.I saw massive caverns like flesh wounds carve on for miles and miles, destroying the hiddey of these nds forever. I saw nothing but that same anonymous gray stohat we all knew, but only that for miles and miles and miles more. I didn’t see any actual valuable metals, and so I assumed that they were all mined, sent to exactly where they o go, torn to pieces and made into happy teology for everyoo marvel over. The er would never know what actually happeo get those minerals to them, but I was going to be the oo do it. I would tell them my story of being thrown through an uunnel and forced to fight for my life, grasping at straws in order to not be dashed against the rocks hundreds of miles below and die. I only imagined how horrible the backsh would be when the public saw how horribly the worker drones were being treated, and there would be an uprising against the upper css of the middle and lower csses, and we would thee an agrarian society where everyone worked exactly as much as they were capable of, doing only the work that they were capable of. I would usher in an age of trust, belief, and care, where healthcare would be free and there were no dark moions, nothing of the sort. Art would be celebrated as much as mathematid sce. I saw the world I had created py out in front of me. I saw the people smiling and ughing as they went about their days, happily w for a wage that would support them and their families forever, regardless of how much they worked on a certain day or how hard they worked. I smiled. I had created perfe.

  The cart suddenly stopped, breaki of my delusions and nearly throwing me off of the mi itself. It stayed there for about one sed, and after it calcuted the trajectory aly what it o do in order to ehe maximum profit, I, along with the rocks, were thrown up at exactly the speed required to make it to the surfad no more. The hole closed behind me, and I rolled off before it could open again. I stood up and brushed myself off, and when I looked up, I saw two people running towards the bounty with a bucket in hand. They started to grab the rocks, and I saw their faces as they went from hunched over to pletely vertical. Their eyes were manid they seemed to be frothing at the mouth at the prospect of new rocks.

  I looked around my area, and I saw uhe light of the Sun that I was oskirts of a city, and the end of the forest was right behind me. I called out to Sarah, called her wice more, and then waited for a response. None came, so I stuck my head into the forest and called for her, hoping that the noise would echo off the trees and reach her. I waited for about a minute for a response, and when I got none, I promptly turned around and started walking into the city.