While I wanted to find the egg first, the others certainly had a point... that dragon didn't seem like he'd last much longer, and it would probably be best if we at least checked on him before we tried to find some other dragon's egg, or whatever. "You know... I think you're right... we should at least check on him to make sure that he's not going insane right now," I say to Trey, who, despite being the primary magic user in the party didn't ever really seem to actually come up with any ideas, that is, until now... sort of. I then try to head back to the arena, and, somehow, through my aimless wandering, manage to make it there. The dragon was still there, but he was somehow turned to stone by another dragon. I approached the unfamiliar, grey-scaled dragon and ask "Why in the world is he a statue right now?" The grey dragon responded with "He was going to die... so, we just did this, instead. He'll be a statue until we find a cure, strange as it might be to you lesser dragons, we actually try to preserve life instead of just throwing whoever we can at the human menace..." I decide against responding to that with any sort of retort, as that would probably just anger the dragon who was capable of turning things into stone statues... a power I really didn't want to be on the receiving end of, and looked back at my team with a confused look. I suppose this freed us up to find the egg... but... it just seemed weird to me, and it also didn't seem like something that I'd want to happen to me for any extended period of time. This also puts those seemingly random dragon statues that I kept seeing on the way into perspective... they were all sick with some sort of currently incurable disease. I didn't even want to think about whether or not they could still see and think while they were like that.