When I woke up, it was like busting through a shell. Heh heh, if I was more for metaphors, I'd call it some kind of rebirth.

But looking at other people, they were stone, through and through. The depetrification process just seems to work from the inside out.

[He feels that urge to quench his thirst again, but holds back.]

You should try this one before I drink it all. It hasn't made me ragingly horny yet, but I can feel something going on.