With the light from Mindal's torch lighting the passageway way all the way to the corner you tensely wait to ambush the creatures as they come around the corner. Several minutes pass by as you are sitting there waiting for the creatures to come around the corner. After a bit you start to look at each other and wonder if they are going to be coming around the corner. Every now and then you can make out some smattering of conversations, sometimes getting closer and other time fading away as if there is a large room around the corner and the creatures are going about their daily business, with no inkling of threat form you just around the corner.