Maggie and I broke into a run barely moments later, hurrying through the darkness. The flames of light she had summoned earlier moved with us, piercing the black and forcing it to retreat into the corners. The creatures I had glimpsed while falling were all on the walls of the canyon, every surface, every ridge. They clung to the stone like living shadows, packed so densely they formed walls of darkness themselves.
Something told me they were the true source of the darkness that choked the hollow of the canyon. But since they weren't attacking, I felt no need to go looking for problems.
I had enough of those already.
More importantly, I needed to save my subordinates.
"I can't feel any of them with Enhanced Senses..."
Maggie was silent for a moment. Both of us just continued to run forward, and the sound of our footsteps was the only thing I could hear, echoing off the canyon walls and swallowed by the dark almost immediately.
