There must have been some kind of trip wire attached to a old genetic transmutor engine because the last thing Mary and her boyfriend Jeff knew the dungeon room was getting awfully bright and awfully hot.
They both blanked out and reawakened 33 days later
apparently their unchanged human selves but with their cave chronometers telling them they apparently had just spent more then a month
slumbering on the cold stone floor of the dungeon room.
Neither Jeff or Mary believed that was what had happened but sensing they both now had bigger issues to deal with had fled the Ruined Castle
and after packing their suitcases
had fled the community and relocated to a community far to the west where they hoped no one had ever heard
of dragons , trip wires or old genetic transmutator engines.
Basically a lonely island where they could do tests on each another.
They began with the changes to Mary's eggs and Jeff's altered sperm/