As we dropped into the pit at the hollow of the Canyon, everything grew still. Just a moment before the fall there had been violent clashing of metal, and I could register them coming from three different places, but after the thunderous announcement of our arrival, everything went silent. A fog of dust swallowed us whole.
Then a ring of fire bloomed around us, rose through the air and drifted toward the upper reaches of the pit's atmosphere where it stayed, emanating a radiance so blinding that the darkness around the place gained legs for a moment and skittered to the far corners that the light could not reach.
But the radiance of Maggie's ring of flame pursued them even there, slamming against the corners of the walls with relentless intensity.
The darkness changed form. It twisted into creatures that latched themselves onto the surface of the wall, their bodies rippling as they solidified against the stone. They looked like they were watching.
'Ominous…'
