What is the mood of this passage
He woke the darkness, coughing softly. He lay listening.The boy sat by the fire wrapped in a blanket watching him.Drip of water. A fading light. Old dreams encroached upon the waking world. The dripping wasd in the cave. The light was a candle which the boy bore in a ringstick of beaten copper. The was spatterd on the stones. Tracks of unkown creatures in the mortifief loess. In that cold corridor they had reached the point of returned which was measured from the first solely by the light they carried with them.
Basically, the mood is the feeling perceived when reading a story and to describe, the setting and language used is taken into consideration because all together creates an atmosphere. Therefore, the mood of this passage is mystery, because of the dark setting described and the vocabulary used.
