The sounds of Giles' voice makes him jump slightly, a sharp intake of breath as he moves away a little, knocking into the counter and getting his coat covered with soot and dust. Gosh bro you really need to stop doing that, you are going to give Helios a heartache one of these days. The magician will just let out a relieved sigh as he dusts himself off looking at the eerie surroundings of the building.

"I-It's um, s-strange. I-I can only imagine what sort of being would be able to do this...if it even was one." Perhaps it was something else. An entire population just gone? Helios didn't know what to make of it, really.

"No one even seems to see us or-or react to us either..." It's a perplexing state of affairs. "Like they're...on an entirely different plane of existence or something like that."