On the mountain, inside the pool cave.
A cacophony of hisses filled the cave, the slithering sounds bouncing from wall to wall and causing it to echo out of the cave.
The collective sound of so many hisses was very frightening. The wolves who stood nearby as patrol guards could not help but shiver.
If there was a spirit wolf among them, they would have engaged in a discussion and gossiped away to pass the time. Unfortunately, they could only stand by in silence, hoping that nothing bad would happen.
Inside the cave, everywhere was dark but the creatures inside had no need for light. They could see just fine.
The creatures in question were all snakes, serpents of different kinds and patterns. There were cobras, pythons, boas, vipers, copperheads, cottonmouth, and many more, in their base forms.
The more powerful serpents didn't have these differences, at least they were not apparent. Fire snakes, water snakes, metal snakes, poisonous flora snakes, earth snakes, etc.
