Suddenly, we ended up in a large room bathed entirely in a violent white light. After walking in almost permanent darkness, the sudden change made me crinkle my eyelids nastily. I instinctively raised an arm to eye level to lessen the terrible effect. It was Mallok’s fierce growl that told me the situation was still dangerous and that now was not the time to be distracted. In front of us, Cahl appeared almost at the same time as the black creature; it rushed at him, dragging him along and the two of them smashed against a wall, the one behind us, on our right. When they fell together on the floor, several small wall tiles accompanied them, dusting them with plaster. The black creature remained clinging to the wolf’s dark coat. Then I froze, the pulsations of my heart imitating me, stop

