[Meta thread] Iron's PokeRole Adventure: The Skull Ruins

[Dragonstrike]

[(What does 'a little short of the mines' mean, nearby them, does it? English still isn't my mother tongue, and I wish to be sure where this presence dwells.)

Yes, it means it's near the mines.  Imagine if you were to throw a ball to someone, but the ball didn't quite reach them and hit the ground instead.  The phrase 'it fell short of its target' would be one way to describe what happened.