The time machine was here. As I climbed onto it, the door shut behind me. As I feared, it's a trap!
I smile because I don't need doors to escape with a time machine! I go to strike a match that's lose in my pocket... then realise with horror that in my previous exertion I must have lost the box, and this is the kind of "safety match" that only strikes on its own box! In the darkness the Morlocks are all over me, grabbing, pushing! I struggle to put the control handle back onto the machine. Someone next to me grabs it from me in the darkness! I feel his head against mine and butt it violently! He drops the lever, I grab it in the darkness, fix it onto the machine, pushing it at the same time, and...
