"I suppose, but I was lucky I didn't." Whether or not that was true was sometimes debatable honestly, but he wasn't exactly self aware on that point. "I just counted, so I could tell how much time had passed. Nasty calculation, that."

He brightened at the question. "That's the question isn't it? I have a few theories, and we've gotten our hands on a device that does the same thing, so I can only hypothesize that it was one of these - we're calling it the Medusa - that caused the petrification!" He was more excited about the unknown tech than anything else.

"Also, we're pretty sure the signal to activate it is coming from the moon, so that's definitely our next project."