The hallway's ceiling had been high enough that the light from the torches lining the walls was too weak to reveal Toz and the cats' hiding spot. A few of the guards had looked up, but they could only see the shadows.
Toz waited a few moments to make sure the guards had time to get further away before sticking his head past the corner. The cats joined him one by one, starting with Lucy, whose head popped out next to the ground. Mindle put her head on top of Lucy's, after which Nil got squeezed in between Asilean and Mindle. And Scrael rested her head on top of all the other cats' heads.
Toz and the cats followed the hallway to the left since it was the only way to go, despite it being the same way the guards went.
Simple and robust doors lined the corridor until the end, where it split up into two hallways that went left and right. The doors were pretty obviously where the guards slept, so Toz and the cats didn't bother searching through them.
