The trio could hear a hissing from the walls almost as soon as Belgana stepped onto the pock-marked region of the hallway.  It grew increasingly louder each second, as if sand was running over some surface.<br/><br/>Lydia was fairly confident the remains were tentacles or other appendages, though she could think of no beast that could tunnel through solid stone.  She did remember though a note someone had once scribbled in a corner of a book that talked of a great beast, thought to be demonic in nature, that had been found slumbering in the depths of a mine.  It was said to have the ability to distort reality in its dreams, and tentacles that seemed to act of their own volition.