To the Left...
You begin to turn into the tunnel heading left. It is similar to the tunnel you just left. But you have an unusual feeling that you are being... watched. You manage to move 10 feet down the corridor without this bothering you, however.
And, as it turns out, you are right. A Thri-Kreen stands there in the tunnel, watching you from around 15 feet away, and you can hardly make it out - but it's shape is familiar, and it is most definitely a Thri-Kreen. It examines Syld for a moment, and it's mandibles click - and the sounds are oddly reminiscent of your common tongue, although in a very odd order.
"Business, what... you in tunnel have?"
It makes no moves, standing perfectly still - but it holds an unusual looking polearm in its forelimbs. It also looks very tense, as though it will spring at you or away from you at the slightest provocation. You can read no emotion in it's insectoid visage.