Empty Backgrounds?

The next demo I do will offer a bit more freedom in where to go, in order to showcase how the game will work.  In between major story bits you are able to chose where to go/what to do as such you may sometimes go to an area without a character and simply see something like this.

Normally on those it would simply say no one is around and you'd be able to choose somewhere else or something else to do. But at certain times you'll see the menu still up.

When this happens it means that even though none of the characters can be seen, that something in the area can be interacted with via either "Talk"  or "Examine". For example sometimes in the library you can talk to the ghosts you see there.

And here is a sketch of her sprite.