About half a minute later, he seems to suddenly regain color and stretch, just as the mysterious winged woman did, pieces of stone flying off him.

Fortunately, they do not appear to hit his keriol.

His shirt and shoe are still missing the small bits. It really is quite fortunate that she didn't get anywhere else on him.

"Welcome back," says Tyler.

"Yes. Ask her what her deal is." She points at the winged woman.

He blinks and then moves his head back a bit to get out of the way of the suddenly appearing keriol.

"Um," he says, then looks at the winged woman. "Wasn't she just–?"

"Yup, now get translating and be helpful," says the keriol. "… Oh, I could've done that while you were a-stone, oops." Headbutt.

"Rrright," he says, then starts translating what people say.

"… You might want to be more specific than just asking what 'my deal' is," says the woman. "Victoria, by the way."

"Who are you, why do you have wings, how did you get here, why were you a statue."

"There was someone on the pedestal thing. I touched it. Apparently that's a feature that it has. I'm Victoria, I have wings because of this place, and I got here by– would you know what I mean if I said 'something shiny and then a moment of vertigo'?"

"Yes," says Thario. "Both she and I got here through that."

"… What about– Tyler?" she asks.

"Red rock," says Thario with a bit of a sigh.

"By which he means he touched a red glowing rock and Tyler appeared."

"Right."

"I Formed. In the wrong place."

Nod.

"He's beginning to make something of a habit of it."

"I touched a stone statue, okay?" he says. "If you'd rather I just stay away from everything and, I dunno, let you touch them all and get turned to stone, be my guest."

"I didn't say I disapprove of this behavior. I do think you should hand the book off to someone slightly more cautious if you are going to continue."

So Thario tosses the book to Tyler.

He catches it and pockets it.

Nice of it to, weirdly enough, be a pocket-sized dictionary now. (Was it like that before?)

No, it wasn't. Whatever.

"Can you do anything beyond baseline human other than, presumably, fly?"

"Nothing supernatural, no," she says. "I haven't – hadn't – been here long."

"Hm." Mostly useless, then.

Has anything interesting been added to the cave since last she checked?

Anything such as what?

… Ooh, how about that cute pink bunny by the entrance?