Your ears do not deceive you. Um, so far as you have ears.

[She looks back at him briefly, unsure, but shakes her head just as quickly, brown waves of hair cascading about her shoulders. It's not important.

Now where did that item go? She heard it clinking off the stone before. If it's not here by the base of the statue, it must have bounced. Circling about it once more to be double positive, she waves her hand as if brushing back cobwebs.]

It's a secret method of transportation about this place. Honestly, can you think of anything weirder sounding? It's totally absurd.