So we meet for the first time Whose Expanse is this anyway ?
"It's very strange though, very strange and I know strange. As you all know by now few people have access to the Grand Stair and even fewer have reason to trap it. So well, it's odd but yes, no reason to set anything off. I am not sensing any power from anything, so those baubles don't seem to resonate with any inherent power of their own." She shrugs and will follow the others.
Xan eyes the statues, "You said there is a minotaur, is there a Medusa ?"
Millenia, "Yes there is why ?"
Xan points at the statues.
Millenia, "Oh, oh I see what your getting at, she doesn't tend to melt her creations and I don't sense enough umbra about them to suggest they were changed from their true flesh and blood form, so these I imagine are real statues."
Xan nods and clutches her big hammer tightly.