[Jinxie slowly makes her way down the stairs, keeping hold of Maya's hand the whole way and helping her down to the next landing. She treads lightly and carefully around the floor, feeling a little bad to be stepping all over something so colorful.]

Do you think the scholars have already been down this far? Maybe we should try to copy down these weird symbols before we keep going.

[She'll wait for Maya to make that call, but she does pull out some paper and a pencil just in case while she wanders over to peek into the opening in the stone slab.]