The elevator platform rose slowly.
It was a wide, flat square of old wood, suspended by thick cables that ran through a pulley system bolted to the underside of Ukai's lowest platform level.
Raizen stood at the rising platform's edge, one hand on the solid metal railing. The way Ukai combined traditional wood things with technology was truly weird - you can see a stall selling carefully handmade wooden animals, and just a few steps to the left, a full-metal drone trimming excess branches.
