THE CURVY DELIVERYWOMAN STEPPED FORWARD wringing her fingers. The blue detection light in the elevator box pulsed behind her. Detecting no one, the mana-operated contraption closed up its silver doors.
It wasn't until the last century, in the reign of the last Van Imperia King, Giselle's father, that a group of studious [Pegasus Arc] graduants had come up with the artifice called 'the elevators'. Rumors had been it was inspired from the more trendy ones down in the Atlantean colonies, with their grove of gemstones, cyberpunk underwater homes, and futuristic machines. But the water queen, Yemaya didn't just let any one into her realm.
Everyone knew this.