"Wait they are not angry," Lava mentioned and walked over to them.
"Let's just leave them be," Rye said and Lava turned and they walked away together.
Deep in the woods was a ragged tree house. Lava and Rye climbed a knotted rope up the tree house.
Rye helped the zombies up. Rye turned just in time to catch Lava who fell through a rotten plank.
'Unbelievable, I just pulled her up without effort. I think I'm stronger than before,' Rye thought.
"Thanks, we are only spending the night so I'm assuming this will be okay for the new master of the dungeon," Lava said and Rye stepped back and bumped into the zombies.
"Listen, I don't know what happened but I did not kill your master," Rye put his hands up as he said.
"I am not going to hurt you. I told you, I want you to find out who is responsible,"
"So you are not mad I killed your boss?" Rye frowned.
"No, we were not that close," Lava elaborated.
"Okay. Tell me everything you know about this," Rye asked.
"Yes, there have been a couple of deaths but we can only link three. Melani Graves, Yeti and Skor," Lava explained.
"To not mess with your judgment. You will have to find out stuff on your own," Lava added.
Rye nodded and looked at the only bed in the room.
"You should take the bed," Rye blurted out.
"Yes, we should get some sleep. We will leave at dawn," Lava agreed.
'She did not even fight me on taking the bed," Rye thought with a frown.
Rye woke up to the smell of pastries and candies. He opened his eyes to see an Oumf standing over him.
He stared at him with the same creepy smile. Frightened, Rye grabbed onto Juvita. His scream woke Lava up.
She pulled out a dagger from under her pillow and looked down at Rye.
'What is she waiting for?' Rye thought, just before he noticed Juvita's breast was pressed against his chest.
"Oh no, it is not what it looks like," Rye quickly said, letting go of Juvita.
"It is fine I am not judging," Lava said as she got out of bed.
"He scared me and reflex kicked in," Rye tried to explain, and caught Lava staring down at him.
"I get it. You don't need to explain anything to me," Lava said.
Rye looked down and saw a bulge in his pants. Immediately, he knew trying to explain would make things worse.
Lava broke a piece of cake that the Oumf had brought and took a big bite. Rye went to look out the window, it was still dark. Down the tree house were Oumfs.
"They have us surrounded," Rye mentioned but Lava kept eating. Using both hands she shoved cake into her mouth.
'I think she is angry. Maybe she had a bad dream,' Rye thought. He sat down and took a bite of a cupcake.
Lava wiped her lips and started to pack a bag. She then threw it at Juvita. Who did she made catch the bag.
'Yes, she is angry with me and taking it out on Juvita,' Rye was about to say something when Lava commanded.
"We are leaving," she yelled at Rye.
Not saying a word Rye followed them down the tree house.