(SPOILER)...died in the whirlwind?

You know that pretty far into the game, your party gets sucked into that whirlwind, and Layla disappears.
The other characters then scream "Where's Layla?!" and she comes back a little later in the game.
However, what if she accually *died*?
I think that'd be really cool, and it'd add a lot to the dark atmosphere in the game.
First time I saw this thing, I really did think she had died, and it gave me the shivers.