Poa

Cursed an eon ago, by the ancient witch-queen who once ruled the Undercity, that lies abandoned in the dark underneath the Clan of the Trench. For no crime worse than incessant chatter, she was cursed to be stone, unless she could be in running water. Her family tried to keep her with them, moving to the marshiest part of the territory. But one too many drought year, one after the other... and now the Undercity is a ruin, and a new clan has moved in on top.

The terrain had changed, and the garden where she'd sat, as stone, for hundreds of years, was too dry to wake her anymore even with the change of seasons. Until the Clan of the Trench's bitter herbalist got a yen for a water fixture garden, and uncovered a beautiful statue of a snapper right in the middle of where he wanted to put it. Just perfect, he thought. I can make a waterfall fountain right here.

But when the first streams of water ran over her back, the lady woke up.

(Brahmi's determination to have his wife with him year round, anywhere he wishes, has driven the skydancer to new heights of hydroengineering. but no matter what attempts they made, the clan's magic users could not reverse the curse)