[What's a little more transformation? He doesn't know how quickly it will happen, at this proximity, but....will she believe, if he doesn't?]

People exposed to his light directly....become unable to think of anything else, and eventually turn to glass. Would he-- have taken that, from friends and strangers alike?

[He's still heading - slowly - for the light. He's also toying with his own fingers. They're so brittle...]

Think it's possible....when he became a Sun, he lost some of himself.