"She learned somehow that my deepest terror was being turned into a statue and buried underground or dropped into the ocean so I never got an afterlife, and arranged a situation where I thought I had betrayed everyone in a fashion that warranted that, and so she slowly petrified me. And then after she undid it she swore to me that that would never happen." Carissa's feelings about this are in fact all over the place but she manages to keep her voice content, contemplative, enamored. She cranes her neck to try to see the picnic basket.

"She learned somehow that my deepest terror was being turned into a statue and buried underground or dropped into the ocean so I never got an afterlife, and arranged a situation where I thought I had betrayed everyone in a fashion that warranted that, and so she slowly petrified me. And then after she undid it she swore to me that that she would never do that." Carissa's feelings about this are in fact all over the place but she manages to keep her voice content, contemplative, enamored. She cranes her neck to try to see the picnic basket.