Read the excerpt from "Deucalion and Pyrrha” by Carla Nappi.

And then he turned to her and she turned to him and they tried to speak. But they had spent so much of themselves giving words away that they had none left. And so they crept through the library, and they opened the volumes one by one, and they found pages they liked and ripped them out and crumpled them up and fed them to each other, and crawled up onto the shelves together, and closed their eyes, and felt their skin hardening into leather and their spines turning to stone and silver and their insides thinning out to bony pages embroidered with threads of muscle and vein and they waited like that, until the next readers came.

What does the author’s decision to adapt the original story by having the characters turn into books suggest about words?

Stories create worlds in which we live and which we pass on to others.
The wisdom of the ages is contained and protected in libraries.
Language is the thing that separates humanity from other creatures.
Books are collections of thoughts that authors share with the world.