E.LO.E

The girl ponders the mysterious device in the room. It entices her with its mystery, its suspicion, it's esoteric nature its.... mystery. She jaunts over to it, crouching down so she can take a closer look a the thing, It seems to be a single piece of metal, shaped into a sort of cap, about a foot and a half around, and raised two inches off the ground. There's an extension out the base from which it's bolted to the floor, seven bolts in total, all around. The assemblage on top of the thing continues to vex and concern her. It's some sort of trapezoid, with a bunch of nubs along the side, pressing on them provides a small clicking noise. The top of the thing, where the glass panel is, is mostly plain, with what appears to be a single push pin just under the panel.

She presses down on the pin, which emits a loud ping after it passes some sort of latch. She worriedly looks about,, it was quite loud, and she is concerned that someone might have heard that... she's not entirely certain who would've, as she doesn't even know if there's anyone to hear, but then she's not really certain of a lot of things in this situation. She's drawn back to the panel when she notices it producing a soft blue glow. She boggles vacantly at screen, which is displaying a symbol she doesn't recognize, in white, against a blue background. She clicks some of the side switches, and as far as she can tell this does nothing except change the image to other symbols she doesn't particularly recognize.

She quickly gets fed up with this seemingly futile series of events and stands up in a huff. She circles angrily around the device a few times before reeling her foot back as far as she can manage. She gives the thing a swift kick to the side, hearing a soft crack as her toes connect to the device. She's befuddled for a moment, and then starts shouting expletives and clutching her foot. The pain is extraordinary and she forgets herself for a moment, falling to her ground and rolling about, her only clear thoughts being concerns about the permanence of this damage. She's drawn out of this delirium when she thinks she hears something. From outside the room. She suddenly remembers the situation she's in and clamps her hands around her mouth. Her foot still really hurts.