As four boys walked slowly down the long hallway each peered at the faces of terror, horror, or pain which the statues expressed to very well.
Back in the lower room a scared Ryan sunk into the creamy liquid as the toothless man showed him a big grin. Not a whimper or cry came from the horrified youth as he felt the soft liquid pulling him down. A low vibration from the conveyor belt also aided Ryan ultimate drownding in the cannister filled with liquid.
As seconds passed and youth tried to hoist himself out of the cannister the vibrations only made his sweaty hands even more slippery. Seeing his fate he remembered and old Tv show he'd seen where a man got dumped into a vat. Fingers fumbled for the penlite as the liquid was up to his neck and he sinking wanted to live.
The man stood on the stairs landing till Ryan's hairy head submerged below to top of the white liquid. Down, down inside the liquid struggled a youth with penlite in mouth trying to peek the pen out into the open air for a way to breathe and live.
The cannister continued it's normal trip as the main machine swallowed the cannister whole.
Ryan took a deep breathe in and held it for as long as possible. The thought hit his terrorized mind that the statues need a form to make the moulds. This is where so many gave up their lives to have others see the last expression as they met their fate. If he was to survive he needed both room for his chest to expand and air to suck down the penlite.
Now the cannister grew very warm as it had enter a drying oven. The very warm air which entered the penlite soon began to soften as Ryan's teeth bit deeper into it's plastic case. Eyes closed shut, arms and hands reaching upward in panic hope of boosting himself out the cannister of death. Ryan's feet and legs suspended in the liquid touched nothing for support to jump or thrust him up and out.
Then he felt the ultimate moments as the liquid was quickly becoming a solid. The conveyor again vibrated and Ryan knew it was on the move but to where?
As the machine rumbled along and Ryan's cannister moved out of sight from either stairs or landing four boys began to walk down the stairs.