"Good." Alex remarked brusquely, emphasizing his words with a curt nod. "We may need them."

His eyes didn't have trouble adjusting to the gloom but that may have had something to do with the whole not being human thing. He scoured the gloom, looking for a likely place to start.

Down the dark passage, something clatters, and Alex's head snaps immediately towards the sound.

"Is someone else checking this place out too?" His voice is a low growl, and he's poised almost like an animal about to strike.