He shakes his head, slightly confused.

You know what would be handy right now? A translator. Unfortunate that one of them will have to be sacrificed to get him back.

She beckons Tyler over.

Tyler goes over to her.

… And apparently that ferret from earlier isn't quite as gone as it seemed? Since it – somehow – appears at the entrance to the cave.

Hello, ferret. She might only get one shot at this and she's not sure if you'll work.

Tyler is given a Force push at his back to nudge him into the statue.

He doesn't move into the statue.

He does, however, turn around to look at her with a raised eyebrow.

The winged woman slowly gets to her feet, also giving Elleira a bit of a look.

She shrugs at him.

Okay fine. Hey ferret, get over here. Yank.

Ferret: gets over there!

Tyler moves back over to the winged woman and starts trying to converse with her.

Apparently he's successful in speaking at least one of the languages she does.

How nice for them.

Ferret: gets booped into the statue. While Elleira is safely not touching it.

Ferret: turns to stone.

It's so cute that she was willing to trade the hydrokinetic with flight for the pretty boy with lumen and translation, though.

Just temporarily. Until she found out what the winged one's deal was. Playing charades is tiresome, and magic translation is a convenient shortcut.

Thario is moved off the platform, the ferret takes his place.

Poor ferret.

The keriol moves to follow the pretty-boy statue.

Which will hopefully be waking up soon.

… Hopefully!

It seems like it might take a while. The ferret definitely turned to stone, though.

Victoria, meanwhile, is saying in English, "You seem to look quite like my son, Theo."

"My name's Tyler," he says. "And I'm pretty sure I'm not your son."

"If you say so," she says.

"I would have Formed at a tsunami, except I got dragged here. 'Formed' meaning suddenly come into existence with superpowers, no parents."

"Right," she says. "You also don't seem to speak like Theo."

Shrug.

Look at them, babbling away. Too bad the book got stoned with Thario.

It really is, isn't it.

Fortunately, after another few minutes Thario starts to gradually regain color too.

His keriol jumps up onto his shoulder and headbutts him lightly, then jumps from one shoulder to the other and back a few times, worriedly.

Oh good, it worked. Hurry up and finish thawing, she has questions.