Matthew wanted to snap something about how having a 'reason' was rather difficult when you'd never even planned to come here in the first place, but he didn't want to advertise just how out of his depths he was here. Although possibly it was already late for that, considering her sarcastic comment about orientations.

Well, they thought it was sarcastic. Hell, what if this place was crazy enough to actually hold orientations on this crap?

"Why?" he said instead, looking at those circles suspiciously. Walking into strange magic circles was a bad idea at the best of times, and even more so when they were of a magic that was so far outside their range of understanding that it might as well be magic from Mars. "I am not standing in one of those."