Rumbling could still be heard underground like rolling thunder. It sounded as if a beast from the abyss was moving through the rocks and soil. Lily carefully peeked through the shaft, her eyes glowing in the dark. But, all she saw was a faint shadow moving past her. "I think we've lost it. Looks like that thing can only move in a straight line."
With a flap of her wings, Vivian shapeshifted back into her human form, then she threw one of her bats back into the shaft. Under the bat's glowing lightning, Vivian and Lily could now clearly see the situation beneath them: a coarse, giant, brownish-black tentacle was moving swiftly. It moved so fast that even Lily's super vision had a hard time catching a glimpse of its true face. The tentacle obviously did not realise there was a shaft there and it just kept going forward. Perhaps it was just as Lily said, the dang thing could only move in a straight line.
