>>11258357
I like making the ambiguity apply in-universe as well. Her captor has no idea what's going to happen to her mind like this. Maybe she'll stay concious, maybe she's about to stop existing, who knows? She will soon, but she won't be talking.

I want to see a petrifier taunt their victim about that. Hey, look, you're almost done! Just a few seconds left to go! So, what do you think? Are you about to vanish forever? Are these your last thoughts? Better make them some good ones, you already wasted your last words on gibberish. Oh, I wish I could hear them...but I can't! Nobody can! Ever again! Oh, look, look there goes your eye. Would you like a countdown until what could be the end? Your very, veeeery last seconds alive? Fiiiiive, foooour, threeee...