Once the three demons had backed up significantly and rounded a few corners they stopped. As soon as they did, Sue took the chance to ask, "Ok, what seems to be the problem? Why were you guys freaking out so much?"
"It wasn't a dead end" said Kat
"It was worse" said Kamiko jumping in afterwards.
Kat picked up where she left off with, "It was actually a giant rat. The whole dead end was one sleeping, or at least, breathing rat that was blocking it off…" Kat let out a long sigh at that, letting her thoughts catch up before she kept talking. "… actually, now that I've given it some thought, it might be even worse than that. I didn't see a tail at all, so we weren't seeing the back of the rat, and there were no breaks, so if it's like the side fat of the rat it's much larger than the hole"