I couldn't move or even talk. I just had to stand there, bald as a newborn baby. My most prominent thought was *Well at least it can't get any worse, can it?*
Facing the wall, I couldn't see the clock - but I could sense that more than half an hour had passed. Hector and the others had forgotten about me. I wondered when I would be able to move again. Preety soon I would have bigger problems.
Hearing a slithering I realised there was a snake in the room! My thoughts were comfirmed when it started coiling round my body. When I was completely helpless in the long snake's coils, I felt a tingling and sensed the petrification ray had worn off - Now, of all times!