Now after an hour of staring at moaning twitching motionless
Issac
Ilvir began to realize that maybe
since only such a monster might be able to snap Issac out of whatever he was into.
So Ilvir waded through that countless army of petrified folk and was about to give up in despair
of finding anything other
then basilisk skeletons
when he came apon the petrified
basilisk.
Unlike the other petrified folk this stone had a golden chain with a glowing gem case
around its neck and Ilvir
sensed that it was the dead creatures soul,trapped in the gem case.
So he placed his hand on the gem case
and learned he had a complicated basilisk here.
Not dead
not alive
but frozen
some kind of Basilisk Princess caught up in some long ago
basilisk civil war.
He made Contact and the two entities agreed she wouldn't petrify him with her gaze
if Ilvir unfroze her.
In return she promised to help him learn how to unpetrify petrified creatures.
So Ilvir did his thing and the unfrozen Basilisk Princess stumbled about for a few minutes as she got her bearings
Then she noticed Ilvir,and there was that moment of tension where
she and he wondered if it was time to break a promise
and petrify Ilvir.
However a High Born's promise
must be kept and so the moment of tension passed and the two went into the countless army to choose Ilvir's companions