[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/HfKWHeg.png[/img][/center][@LuckyLudor] [@Crimson Flame]

Another fairy approached, a green-winged man with a scarred face, and it took Zircon a moment to place where she recognised him from. Surge, a traveller who'd visited the Minty Mountains a while back. He'd bought a few souvenirs from her, and asked her questions about the mountains, seemingly an avid explorer. Except when they'd met, he hadn't had those scars over his eyes. Injuries sustained while adventuring? He seemed used to being blind at least, navigating with ease as he examined the statues with his fingers.

At his theory that it could be the food and drink, Zircon gave the pirate fairy a panicked look, before reminding herself that couldn't be the case. [color=4DA6FF]"I doubt the food or drink has anything to do with it. Cori, my friend, she was only in here for a few seconds, and..."[/color] She couldn't bring herself to finish the sentence, could hardly bear to look at the statues, but she had to keep searching for clues.

Overhearing the prince bad-mouthing the dark fairies yet again - then going on to call the moth-winged man a cutie - she sighed and flew over. Did he have no idea he was talking to, and offending, a dark fairy? Did the guy's wings, or his glare, not give it away? [color=4DA6FF]"Your Highness, I don't see how shadow magic could turn anyone into stone,"[/color] she pointed out, backing up Vyvien. Dark magic had to do with literal darkness, not curses. [color=4DA6FF]"Maybe we should go to Lumina though? The earth fairies may know of a cure for petrification."[/color]