Flying over the road must be significantly easier than walking it was, given the way it goes over and around and under itself in knots. There are bits of ruins covered in snow here and there, and eventually the road finds some thermal springs.

Oh, fun.

Anyone there?

...no one alive. The walls of the cave around the springs, however, are covered with statues, and a magical blue light flows over them and into the water. There's also a large sphere of water floating above the spring's surface, revolving slowly around itself.

Does the sphere look like it might have pyreflies in if he goes up close to it? Does it do anything if he pokes it?

It doesn't seem to have pyreflies in it, no, but then again, magic water usually doesn't. Poking it disturbs it much more than would be naively expected, but after shaking a lot for a bit it returns to its spherical status.

Weirdo water sphere.

What if he sticks his whole arm in it?

It tingles.

… What if he just decides to fly into the water, because yay experimental method.

It tingles some more!

...oh faces.

There are faces in the water?

Yep. Or in his head. One of those.

Well he's now gonna swim out of the water and see if the faces are still present.

They're not.

There doesn't happen to be a convenient platform around the floating ball of water, does there? No? Okay, well, he'll make a small one to stand on unless there are any objections.

The world seems to not react to this.

...it's also interesting that there seem to be no fiends anywhere, there.

He is, of course, going to complain to management about such a dreadful oversight.

And with the platform produced, he sticks just his head into the water. Are the faces visible now or does he need to get into the water more for that to work?

Tingle!

...faces!

Does anything happen if he tries waving at them other than more tingling.

He might go try talking to the statues or something. Since, possibly fayths. Or something. He really doesn't know enough about everything, he arrived like five days ago and only had two of those with people who knew stuff.

The faces don't really do anything. They just flit through his vision, inside the water.

Well he's probably not gonna get any information out of them.

He gets rid of his platform and goes over to some of the statues.

They're shiny. And really realistic.

"Hello," he says.

No reaction.

"I'm a guardian of a summoner. Not sure if you're regular statues or magic but there are faces in the water, so I'm guessing magic."

No reaction.