And When He Awoke...

And when he awoke, dazed and bloodied from the blow, he found himself in a tenebrous and  fiery cavern.  Above him appeared to be stars.  But that couldn't be right. Not inside a cave.  And it surely was a cave. He'd been exploring the caves around his village since he was  just a towheaded boy.

But it was the strangest cave he'd ever explored.  And for the first time in all his spelunking adventures he felt afraid.

Something had clubbed him and left him for dead and now he could hear something or many somethings moving through the dark shadows of the cavern.