"Thank the Maker for small favors, I guess," Alleyana sighs, "I guess the weirder this all is, the more it makes sense that I'm here. Because why wouldn't I be."

And if the other people here aren't spirits and demons of the Fade -- which she's not quite ready to settle on, yet -- then they're probably in a similar boat to her. People who just trip and fall into weird shit as a matter of course.