Hmm Smells like Trap

"How odd there doesn't appear to be anyone left on board." Telrrax and I had departed the ship, the rest of the crew was to remain on board (because Telrrax is not an idiot you don't crash your enemies ship and then give them another ship ready to go).

"Must have been a ghost ship, oh well time to go then?" Look I hate being on a ship as much as anyone, I hate getting stuck on an island with ghost pirates and a powerful magic user worse. I assumed ghost pirates, but you know with my history? Not exactly unheard of. Telrrax of course gave me a dirty look, so did the flesh creature.

"I wonder which way they went." I was about to laugh but Telrrax seemed genuinely curious and couldn't see the obvious trail from the ship into the jungle, I had to remind myself not everyone had the years of being lost in the woods experience that I had, she had probably never even left a city before.

"This way." I pointed in the direction of deeper in and off we went. I wanted to explore the ship more, try and figure out what the Councilman might have been doing in there, but alas like most of my good ideas it was ignored in favor of going off for the dumb idea (we'll ignore the fact my "good" ideas are ignored by me most of the time, ok moving on). What appeared at first to be a path just cut for the purpose quickly became apparent it was an actual path (trees and overgrowth were not anywhere along the path I could make out some stones that had been covered by sand). The path was also moving towards a cave that clearly went into some kind of volcano.  I also noticed that despite a recently wrecked ship and hastily running away from the wreckage, there was absolutely nothing along the path leading to the volcano cave, no blood, not strewn garbage, just foot prints.

"This could be a trap." I had stopped Telrrax and her flesh creature almost ran in to me.

"What makes you think that?"

"I dunno the fact that we found no one on the ship, this is clearly a path into a volcano, and it's been like a day since the last one so in my world that means I'm about to get into one."

"Trezlan you are such a cynical person, now get into that cave." I looked at Telrrax angrily but did as I was told and into the trap we went.  Ooops spoilers.