[The tone is not encouraging. Nevertheless, Kratos forges onward, not reckless but inexorable, because this is all he's known. He wouldn't even know where to begin to change.]

The crystal takes over unconscious processes. Breathing, senses, sleep -- these are all things we can turn on again, after the transformation is over.

[Which she already knows.]

But everything else -- a person's capacity to develop -- is stalled. Or do you think Mithos remained a child by choice?