"Hello...?" Mallia stepped around the corner, trying not to touch anything, about as confused by this new setting as one might possibly expect someone wholly unfamiliar with such things to be. She'd actually taken to gathering a bit of her skirts in her hands, pulling them up a few inches out of an abundance of caution as she'd stepped down the stairs, peering this way and that, as curious as ever. What was this place?

But she could have sworn she'd heard someone a moment ago....