[ She's right. It looks frozen, or turned to stone as it died, not like a corpse that's had the life taken from it and rotted. ]

Makes you wonder what other monsters are lurking here, and whether this is some wild vein of magic or something someone knew how to do.

It's strange that we all showed up at once, and no one before that.

[ Cursed things often leave hints as to their undoing inside them. Maybe they'll find something inside. ]