Working in a coal mine - 2

So I and my ‘minder’ got into the lift cage with about another dozen miners. The doors closed and one of the others pushed a button.

Down we went.

“This the first time you’ve been down” one of them asked.

“Yes.”

“Sh*t,” he said. “If I’d known I would have got him to drop us under gravity, to initiate you.”

Down, down, the mine begins 2km below the surface.

And it got warmer, and warmer as we went down.

“Heat from the planet’s core.” My minder said. “It will get a lot warmer yet.”

And down and down we went.