I shivered as the damnable machine unspooled its cable to depths to deep to consider. Surely there is no cable like the one that held me suspended between perdition and the abyss. My breath came in puffs of frozen air and a sheen of ice formed on the lower portion of the elevator's floor.

"Next stop... the ninth plane of hell... devils... cacodemons... and the blasted landscape of Lucifer and his court." I said trying to push away the growing panic. "This isn't funny anymore."

I said imagining that I was no long moving but being subjected to a clever machine that made it feel as if I was plummeting...