Eddie will pull back on the string of his bow to get a feel and gently move the string forward again a few times to get a feel for the mechanism. He is careful to make sure that he doesn't let go of the string as he, like any good archer, knows that dry firing can damage the limbs of the bow.

"This is amazing Kae-Kae. I can't wait to test it out but I might wait until after we leave our police supplied accommodation to do it"

Kae and Eddie collect their things and check out of the motel.
During this whole time, Kae's transformation is complete she has her same demeanor and same height but, she has become fully High Elf.

Eddie & Kae make their way back to the area they had to park. There is crime scene tape hanging off of several items but no officers are on the scene at this moment. 
You start walking and that is when the rain starts to fall. It is a typical summer shower but the downpour is persistent.

After an hour of hiking, you come back to the entrance to the cavern. 
You approach slowly. 
Suddenly you hear movement coming from the bushes to the right of the entrance. 

Right when the rain begins its pouring, some recent memories come back to Kae. "It's like déjà vu all over again." But it feels different this time. Not just emotionally, but also physically. "Hang on... is my skin is getting wet?" She looks at her hands. They're wet. That part's expected.  The part that isn't expected is the severe lack of scales. "waitWHAT?" She touches her face. It's soft and smooth, not at all like the metallic plates she's felt for as long as she can remember. Sure, there was that one scale that fell off, but she thought that was just from stress or something. This can't all be from stress, can it?

She looks over to Eddie, confusion and shock plastered on a face that's mostly unfamiliar to her, though Eddie saw that same face develop. "Eds, what's going on!? Am I... like you?" She puts a hand on the top of her head.

"I have HAIR?"

"You sure do. I first noticed it this morning but you didn't say anything so I assumed it was normal for you. As to whether you're like me, honestly Kae-Kae I have no idea. I've never met anyone like me before. My Dad used to tell me stories about my Mum and all of her faces but as far as I know there aren't many of us changelings around."

Eddie thinks for a second before saying "Close your eyes Kae. Picture yourself in your Dragonborn form and feel deep down inside your scales, your voice and how it felt to be the old you" As he talks Eddie's form blurs and Kae sees a bronze scaled dragonborn standing in front of her "Your turn now. Don't think it. Just feel it."

"Right. Okay. Okay." Kae takes deep breaths, trying to calm herself so that she can focus. She takes a look at Eddie to use as a reference. His scales aren't quite the right color, but that's fine. When she thinks she's got a good enough picture in mind, she closes her eyes and tries to follow Eddie's directions. She feels the layered plates that used to protect her skin. She feels the heat that used to remain dormant within her stomach. She feels the tips of her hands that used to have claws. She feels every detail of how her old body was different from her new one, in as much detail as her imagination can muster. Eyes still closed, she asks, "is it working?"

Kae takes a deep breath and tries to "turn" back into her former self. 
Nothing happens!

Kae's body finally settles into its new form. "Elf" is what she has become. Just like that b**** Jenna Jenson, Homecoming Queen, Head of the Cheer Squad, and all-around snob!

Out of the bushes bounds a young wolf pup, no more than 2 months old. It is black and gray and runs towards Eddie and Kae with its tongue hanging out of the left side of its mouth. It seems like it wants to play. 

"Well, guess I'm not like you. Or maybe I didn't do it right? We can try again lat-" Kae is interrupted as the little beast in the bush reveals itself. She freezes up at first, worrying that it could be Ripper or another fearsome canine from earlier, but when she takes a closer look she realizes that can't be the case. "Oh, a little doggy! Eds, look at the little doggy! I think it wants to play." Kae picks up a stick, infusing it with her signature meat-smelling stuff before she gives it a good chuck.

ooc: T'was holding off to see Eddie's reaction, but I'll go ahead for now.

As the young wolf pup eagerly began bounding after the stick, it nearly trips over itself trying to stop as it hears a sharp whistle from a ways back the way it came onto the site. Then came a shorter series of sharp whistles that -- much to its chargin as it whined a bit -- the beast sat down as if waiting for something.

None are left waiting for long before following a softer bout of rustling, as the responsible(if though distracted at the moment) individual stepped into view brushing a few errant leaves from wavy, shoulder length black hair. Although clearly a few inches shorter and a bit lighter in skin tone, Kae and Eddie could swear a ghost stood before them, as none other than Sully had stepped into view!

"I swear Corn Chip if you keep this up, I might just-...Oh! Uh, Hi...? Wait, the hecka you guys doing up here? It ain't safe." The 'Sully' said sternly, not seeming to recognize either the transformed Eddie or Kae. And that's when another thing hits the pair as well. This 'Sully' voice was a bit more husky, had adorned himself closer to the apparel of a typical park ranger, and... wasn't Sully at all. No. It's been some years, but both Kae and Eddie would recognize him as the far less chubby cheeked but perhaps still just as stubborn Zalosultavan (or Zal/Sal, as most tended to call him), Sully's cousin!

Seeing the Sully-like figure, Kae's face goes whiter than it's been in the past few hours, and, by extension, her entire life. She just stands there, paralyzed, before and even a bit after he talks. After she gets a few moments to identify the face, all the blood goes back to her face at once. "Oh, right! You're uh... uh... Sully's cousin. Sorry, I'm better with faces than names. You don't have to worry about us, we're just following the advice of a hippie." Gauging the reaction of the half-elf to her and Eddie, Kae makes a realization. "Oh wait, you don't recognize us, huh? Duh, of course you don't. We were Sully's friends. I'm Kae," she throws a thumb over to her changeling companion, "and that's Eddie. I think we met at a thing a while back. I used to have scales, if that brings back any memories. I'm not sure if you've ever met Eddie, he's kinda new in the area.

"I like your dog, by the way!"

"Right so you're Sully's cousin. That's crazy cause I could have sworn I had just seen a ..." Eddie awkwardly cuts off mid-sentence and his face takes on a sombre expression.

"I'm sorry I didn't get your name but I'm not sure if you've been informed yet. We know how dangerous it is out here that's for sure. We were on a road trip with your cousin when we stumbled on a cave up ahead. A freakazoid bugbear and his goblin gang had captured a police officer. There was a hella gnarly fight between us and that bozo Klarg. We were able to save the cop but our homeboy Sully ... God I'm so sorry to have to tell you but Sully ... he ... he didn't make it"

The wolf pup sits down but does not make a move for the stick, It cocks its head to the side, one ear hanging down and the other bent over but still at the top of its head and pants. 

Suddenly you hear a shuffle from inside the tunnel entrance. 

Zalos quirks a brow at the mention of a 'hippie advice', and then scrunches up his scrunches up his face and looks at Kae as if uncertain to think she was crazy or high of her ass. But with Eddie further corroborating her story and adding more in the way of context, the half-elf slowly but surely began to relax with understanding, before then becoming more somber himself.

Eventually he looks away running through his hair as a small war of emotions began playing across his face. Before he can resolve any of it however, the shuffling from the tunnel puts him baqck on alert and glaring in its direction. "Well, seems like a couple of dip shits goblins are still around. And I ain't fix'n let'em go." He looks to still maybe dragonborn Eddie and Kae. "Consider'n ya up here 'n by the sounds of it, stuck it out for the Family, you don't strike me as a couple squares. So if up for it, I wouldn't mind the assist." He says.

Before he can start making his way up to the tunnel regardless of any answers, he stops for a moment to kneel by the pup's side, gives him a small treat, and then and whisper a quiet command in elvish for Corn Chip to presumably stay before he breaks out the family shield and began making his way for the tunnel with barely any effort to do so quietly.

"Gotcha. I'm right behind you." Kae pours a few pebbles that she picked up earlier from a pouch, and then delicately takes out a couple small devices that were held in a different pouch. A second of fitting the former into the latter, and she's ready to go. She follows a few yards after her late friend's cousin, stopping only briefly to pet Corn Chip. Okay, maybe it was a bit longer than "briefly."

Magic stone on three pebbles

The group reenters the tunnel, though this is Zal's first time in, he leads the group inside.
Where to?

"Eddie and I have already seen most of this place. I think there was a bridge at some point that we didn't check across, though. Should we go check that out?"

"Word. But keep your ears peeled. Probably totes on the obvious side of things to do, seeing as you guys dealt with'em before. But a reminder never hurts when it comes to sneaky little chickens still haunting this place." Zalosultuvan replied as he proceeded further north alongside the stream. Although he pauses in step for a second or two after a bit, and risks a glance back at the pair. "Hm... You two might wanna break out the torches. Not sure how deep that whole being an elf thing is working for ya. But best you two sort that out 'fore we get two deep in this place." He further warns, but hardly waits more than a few seconds for the pair to get sorted before again proceeding on northward. 

Once he sees the bridge, Zalos has much the same thought as Sully for a second. But after glancing back and realizing the others were probably less athletically inclined as he, without a word he dismisses the thought, and would continue around the bend looking for another way up... unless Eddie and/or Kae advise otherwise.

Eddie draws his sword cane then pulls a flashlight (torch) out of his pack and ignites it.

"Normally I'd be worried about giving away our position but these are the ******-nozzles that got Sully and they deserve everything they've got coming to them."

The party continues following the main tunnel as it bend around to the east and to a set of steps.
You come into the room with the pool and small waterfall. The sound from the falling water is a bit louder than Eddie or Kae remember and it has refilled the pool to the north of the room.
Kae and Eddie notice that someone has rebuilt the blasted part of the pool with cement blocks and mortar. 
Someone has been here!
You notice a light coming from the cavern entrance in the southwest corner of this part of the cave. The light is faint and fades quickly. 

Eddie swings his sword cane experimentally to loosen up his arm and wrist muscles.

"Did you guys see that? Someone's here. What do you say we roll out the welcome mat for them?".