The Glittering Dark: and other stories of the goblin world

Dark Fantasy story of a post-apocalyptic encounter with ancient creatures of legend. From the collection Meat for the Storytelling: Stories of the goblin world.

A man wanders into the old underground transportation system tunnels and is captured by hostile creatures and taken into the darkest reaches of an underground cavern system. Slowly his vision adjusts to the minimal light from crystal reflections in the stone and he begins to see his captors, but would he have been better off to remain blinded by the darkness?