"Hmm." Sadie attempts to look around the little space, hampered by the fact that it's full of a gin barrel and fluffy soul-creatures. "Is there a button or a lever of some sort?"
Before any such thing can be located (if one or the other even existed), the dumbwaiter starts to rise of its own accord. "Ooh!" Augustine says. "Like magic!" It continues to rise for what feels like several stories, and then the door slides open to reveal what appears to be a serving girl with a startled-looking chipmunk-shaped soul perched on her shoulder.
"Oh!" the girl says, almost dropping the covered platter she's holding as she takes in the dumbwaiter's unanticipated contents. Her chipmunk squeaks and darts down into her apron pocket, then pokes his head back out to stare at them.
"Don't mind us, darling!" Sadie says, swanning out of the dumbwaiter with Augustine still wrapped in her arms. "We'll be out of your way in just a moment!"
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Before any such thing can be located (if one or the other even existed), the dumbwaiter starts to rise of its own accord. "Ooh!" Augustine says. "Like magic!" It continues to rise for what feels like several stories, and then the door slides open to reveal what appears to be a serving girl with a startled-looking chipmunk-shaped soul perched on her shoulder.
"Oh!" the girl says, almost dropping the covered platter she's holding as she takes in the dumbwaiter's unanticipated contents. Her chipmunk squeaks and darts down into her apron pocket, then pokes his head back out to stare at them.
"Don't mind us, darling!" Sadie says, swanning out of the dumbwaiter with Augustine still wrapped in her arms. "We'll be out of your way in just a moment!"