"You knew that wasn't just a statue? --I'm not asking you to say anymore about what it is instead than we've all already witnessed, but, I can't ask the griffin what you were aware of."

"Yes, I knew. I have been using this library for some time, now; I had only to brush a finger against it to realize that there was more to it than carved stone." 

"Huh. Wow. Well, lots of weird stuff is happening lately! I'd rather deal with a spontaneously depetrifying griffin than Deskari playing stone put with the Wardstone." 

"Amen."

Lusilla turns back into starfish shape, and successfully stashes the books somewhere marginally safer like she had originally intended to do. And then they escort the Storyteller back to the Defender's Heart. Well, Lusilla carries him, as she had earlier suggested. 

...They run into less trouble with cultists and marauders deciding to fight them, while Lusilla is parading around in her true form. She's--not sure that's a good thing. Like, yes, avoiding fights is sensible, and not having to kill people is always good, but on the other hand if anyone smart is paying attention she's kind of broadcasting their location like a beacon.