He glowered at the puddle of slime, and then stood, moving quickly along the path of the tracks.  As he did, his feet left the ground, and he flew through the air, his feet several inches off the ground as he ran.  He slid to a stop, landing back on the ground just outside the entrance.  The woman he saw was one of the adventurers that had left town.  He shook his head, and smiled.  "Well, well, well.  If this doesn't look like a damsel in distress, I don't know what does," he said, moving forward and then freezing.  "Oh.  Well, that looks a bit nasty," he said, and then perked his eyebrows up.<br/><br/>He shook his head.  "Why on earth...  I take it you guys need some help?" he said, hefting the crossbow.  "Ah, who am I kidding?  Of course you do!  A woman as beautiful as you couldn't possibly enjoy fighting," he said, vanishing from sight, only to reappear several yards down the tunnel in flight as he dropped and landing behind Bael.  "Stay there, elf boy.  Gah.  Stupid vine traps," he said, dropping one hand to touch Bael on the shoulder, as the other came up with crossbow primed.<br/><br/>[40 foot teleport from Dimension Hop, burning six power points for the extra thirty feet, then fly half of available movement (30 feet), stopping 5 feet back from Bael.  Rapid Meldshaping, free action to reshape the Airstep Sandals into the Impulse Boots, dumping 5 Essentia points into it for a total of +6 Reflex Saves.  Ready a shot to fire at the first ugly to poke its tentacled face around the corner.]