Seaborn

when the first Obelisk arrived, it was a massive, curled statue, and Rie demonstrated with a crack of her tail that it could be woken to life, and the creature shuddered out of the stone - cracking and falling free of it, emerging a ...

really rather violently ugly pink-and-deep-teal, looking almost deeply sunburnt in the quite green glade,

and then she sneezed. the first sneeze did nothing; the second, and her colors flashed a brilliant, eye-blinding light, and settled into a soft peach.

the third hit Seaborn in the face, and he found himself very suddenly an Obelisk as well. Everyone looked at one another in shock, and Rie snatched Melicertes by the head and dragged him in front of her:

but the magic was done.

and now he was stuck.