The place is lit, surprisingly, by a campfire where once an orcish cookpot once rested. Indeed, judging by the smears on the stone floor, that incident with the cookpot was never fully cleaned up. Not even the local wildlife, which must have feasted on other remains from the battle, seem to have had any interest in touching that toxic stew.
But the matter of the campfire... It would appear that the cave is currently in use. But by whom? At the moment, the only people in this section of the cave are those carried here by Reòthadh’s magic: the dwarf himself, along with Alalla, Zenithral, Halla, the twins, Arannis, and Saki.
And the polymorphed canoloth. Currently it is in the form of toad, tucked away into the party’s bag of holding, though the shape-changing spell will not last forever.