The Shadow Continues

This story is continued from a previous post,
I actually realized that I had written the first three chapters together so that is why I'm only posting one chapter tonight.

Chapter 3: A Long-Expected Shadow

The passage twisted back and forth, first to the right and then left and back right, then left again, zig-zagging far into the mountain and down. After groping in the darkness for quite some time, I could faintly hear a hissing noise ahead and a slight reddish glow. I crept forward and was horrified at what I saw! A nest of vipers was directly in the path, a strangely hypnotic luminescence was coming from their eyes. I stood, powerless to move, entrapped by the paralyzing stare; But my mind was strong, I wrested my body back into reality and with a daring leap, I ran and vaulted over the group of snakes, their vicious jaws snapping centimeters away from my ankles!
I later learned that these foul creatures cannot see but their eyes emit a strange glow, similar to a radar system. Their eyes appear to send forth the light rather than receive light as a “normal” eye would and this paralyzes their prey. I shudder to even think about this recollection.
I must have been running out of terror for quite some time for I was quite out of breath, more because I suddenly realized that the tunnel was climbing sharply upwards. I also noticed that I was no longer in the dark but there was some light coming through small holes in the ceiling. Since no vegetation grows near Bizriel’s castle, the air holes cut long ago by the ancient ones had never been covered over. What a barren and desolate land this was! Yet this time I was thankful it was so.
All too soon I came to a doorway I cloaked myself with invisibility and pushed the door open. The room I entered was more of a large cavern really, it had a sandy floor and large openings far up near the ceiling. I walked out to the center where a beam of moonlight shone brightly down and then I noticed a stirring in a dark corner of the room, some creature was there!
The creature took long strides toward me sniffing the air and stopped just short of the beam of light.
“What are you?” it asked in sort of a snarl. My heart leapt to my throat, obviously it could smell me out and equally obvious was the fact that the strange creature was a werewolf!

And thus we must leave the Shadow for a period of time, until we are able to discover the solution to his escape. Until then, he remains facing certain death and I remain obediently yours: The Shadow.