Yeah, see, that's the weird thing. I definitely have a feather, and I definitely spent a good deal of time just looking over it, but nothing happened.

[ and now she's leaning to pick up her feather again, twirling it between two fingers ]

Were you thinking about anything in particular before you changed? Maybe there's some kind of trigger word, or action. Remember anything?

[ meanwhile as she talks, she slowly starts to fade out until she's completely invisible. but she's too busy looking at the feather to notice there's no image of her in the locket anymore, just the background of her room ]