Good point.

[It has him wondering if anyone arrives in this place and likes it. He's not sure he'd want to meet them. He steps into the enclosed lift and waits for something to happen. Maybe this fellow knows more and will get it moving.]

Twenty, and we're good to go.

[No matter how practiced he is, getting into armor takes time.]

I don't suppose you saw a tavern on the way? I'm afraid everything was moving far too fast for me to see more than a blur.

[Faster than he had ever ridden on horseback by far.]