FitzTheRuke
Legend
I think that you can probably assume that they are, for expediencies sake. I don't think we can ask players to type out everything they're saying to each other any given moment. Again, one of the inefficiencies of PBP. But I think we can easily assume that the characters would talk to each other a lot more than we do - I mean, otherwise they'd reasonably get themselves killed on a regular basis.Of course, this is also Escella's schtick. Scouting and running away quickly (via expeditious retreat).
And Escella is running up the stairs next round. She didn't do it this round because that would have been running in blind. No one upstairs is telling us downstairs what's going on up there.