"Somebody just got onto a lift elevator," the familiar voice says.  It's Lothair.  "As a warning to all other Spacers like this one," Lothair says, "the lift elevators are now off-limits!  Too bad the poor Spacer in section three didn't think first.  From the Bridge, I can monitor everything!"

    He must be talking to everyone else in the ship.  But what is he going to do with you?

    "I'll have to make an example out of this Spacer, to show everyone what happens when they try to stop me!  In thirty seconds, if everyone looks out the window, they might see a lift elevator capsule go shooting out into space.  Remember, I am the one in control now!"

    Again, Lothair's dirty laugh fills the room.  You know that people all over the ship are going to hear about your demise, unless you do something, and fast.  Just then, you feel a wrenching force smash you to the floor of the lift capsule.  You know that the lift is shooting up the shaft faster than it should.  Somewhere up at the top of the shaft, there must be a door that opens out into space.  If you don't get out of the lift capsule, you'll go shooting out there.

    That means Lothair will have two murders on his hands.
 

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