Ashly and Lucas aren't to sure as these people are just different. It seems that they don't have anything to hide from them as they answered their questions immediately. There could be a chance that they are lying to them to get them to relax a bit, but even that's questionable.
The one thing that Annoyed Ashly more than still standing outside the rain is the people. They would all try to flirt with her when she would reveal she was single, and not in a relationship with Lucas. At first she didn't mind as why would she, they are just randoms she can forget immediately.
The problem started when every new person would always try this on her so she got annoyed. Ashly managed to not let out her anger, and she just let them flirt with her. She can't anger them at all since they are surrounded, and she has been through worse anyways.
As they keep on being greeted Lucas turns, and he can see how Ashly is struggling. "Ashly I didn't think you would be this popular with guys, well you do look cute." Lucas says, and Ashly gives Lucas a nasty stare.
"Oh I'm not trying to flirt with you Ashly, you know I don't have feelings for you. Besides I'm wondering if you're just having the time of your life." Lucas says, but his joke was completely terrible.
Ashly knows he is only being sarcastic as he can see her frustration. She also doesn't know if she can ask for his help, it might take too long if she did. They both are tired, and drenched so she doubts he would have the courage or energy to say anything.
The Zoryem group then allow them to enter the building, and it's much cleaner than it looks. The place looks like the polar opposite of the outside. It has furniture, and it doesn't seem to have holes or broken windows.
Ashly and Lucas then enter a separate room to put their things away for now. Lucas grabs some clothes he brought. "Can you look away or go to a different room? I tried asking but this is I'm the only room they are giving us, and I'm not really comfortable changing near a girl." Lucas says blushing.
What is wrong with this man? He almost died to a monster, but now he is acting worried. "Fine, only because I have some clothes to spare, and I need to change as well." Ashly says, but she knows he will leave immediately after he is done.
Lucas puts on his shirt. "Well I'll start changing now so scram Lucas." Ashly says as she lifts her shit, and as expected, Luca bolts outside the room. It seems this man really does respect her privacy, but she shouldn't mistreat him. She only did this because Lucas didn't do anything when the men flirted with her.
Ashly steps outside, and Lucas is there waiting for her, one of the men approaches them. "So as you can see this used to be an abandoned building from an abandoned town. Before you ask this was the only building that was safe enough for us to stay in." The Zoreym said. "It's also because this was the newest, and cleanest of them all."
Another Zoryem who has much shorter hair than the rest approaches them. "I would like to apologize in behalf of my fellow friends." He then looks at Ashly. "I am sorry that they all harassed you, and it's because we have more traditional values. Well that's what their excuse is when they harass women."
Ashly rolls her eyes at what he just said, she then looks at Lucas who is listening. "Our leader was a traditional ,man but he never was this extreme. The problem began when he just let them act this way as this was all fine within his will." The short hair Zoryem said as he lowers his head slightly, but not enough to count as a bow.
"That's a very lazy excuse, and it still doesn't excuse them at all. I won't be surprised if Ashly punches one of them." Lucas says which makes the short haired Zoryem frown a bit.
"I'm not joking as Ashly won't let people invade her personal space. She isn't scared to hit someone either. I know that since we are long time f-acquaintances." Lucas says, and then he clasps his hands.
"Right, I was on a journey because I was in search for my parents. I just lost them again as I was this close to finding them, but due to some circumstances I'm back to square one." Lucas says as his voice sounds slightly sad, and Ashly of course looks away. She isn't too glad with the amount of problems she caused.
"Oh don't worry about that, we can help you search for them. After all you did help us by accident, but we do appreciate it." Ashly and Lucas turn to see a much older looking man. "Of course that's if you help us kill the Lurkers, those guys are assholes."
Lucas looks a bit surprised while Ashly has a slight smile. "Why would you ask for such a ridiculous request from me? I don't think I can actually help you with that, I heard that they were dangerous." Lucas then glances at Ashly for a bit.
Ashly stays silent. "Well it's because you killed Robert, and he is no joke. That man can kill ten people by himself, you definitely have what it takes." The older Zoryem says with enthusiasm.
"I am curious, but can you give us a more detailed explanation to why you hate Robert? After all you are willing to help two strangers just because they killed him." Ashly asked and Lucas nods.
"Well alright pretty lady, it all began many years ago. It was a time were our leader Zoryem know Robert, and how capable he was. In the old days Robert was known as the most famous killer around these parts. You see our leader was a strong man who wasn't really a criminal, he only committed crimes when it wasn't too severe. Our leader was at one point called his equal, but sadly he died." The he older Zoryem says as he lowers his head.
"So are you all using his name as a way to honor him or was it because he ordered you all to do this before he did die?" Lucas asked him.
"It was to honor him, and because almost no one knows how he died. Many criminals made fun of him as people used to believe he was his equal. Another thing that made it worse was that he target us specifically because we used his old rival's name." The older Zoryem then shakes Lucas's hand. "I sure do hope our alliance will bring many benefits to all of us."
"I sure do hope so as my companion will definitely benefit from this. She is in trouble with some people, and this alliance will help her in the long run." Lucas says, but Ashly notices how uncomfortable he looks.
Ashly can't bare Lucas looking like that, and so as she sees more of them walk by. "I was the one who did most of the heavy lifting in defeating Robert." Ashly announces to everyone.
The Zoryem all look at Ashly as if she is talking crazy. They then look at Lucas as they expect him to tell her to stop, but he doesn't . Lucas knows the truth so he won't lie to them about her. Some of the men just begin to laugh. "Hey be quiet for a bit, let us men talk for now." One of them said as they continued to laugh.
Ashly so getting ticked off. "But it's true." Lucas says a bit louder, everyone then stoppes laughing, and Ashly hopes he backs her up. "The person who killed Robert was Ashly alright. She didn't like finish him, but she did do most of the work. The only thing I did was the finishing blow, Ashly was the one who fought him head one." Lucas says, and he doesn't change his demeanor.
Ashly smirks at the men, and they all stare at him with disbelief. "Thats impossible, a woman can't kill a man especially one like Robert." Said a Zoryem with a mustache.
"Well that's the truth, I don't know why they made it out as I did it. Ashly is the real deal, and you all shouldn't make fun of her as your goal needs her aid." Lucas says.
"Yeah everything he said was the truth, so that means you should all respect me. I want you all to stop flirting with me as well as you are all creepy. If you don't like my answer then we can leave right now." Ashly says with a grin.
"We are being serious about this, we only went here because of the rain. If you all continue to act this ugly we might as well stay outside as that's not too bad the more I start thinking about it." Lucas says as he turns around, Ashly can't believe he is actually telling them off.
The men all back down. "Hey, we were just kidding, it's raining hard so reconsider it." The Zoryem with short hair said as he waves his hands. "It's getting darker as well, there will be a storm so I don't think it's a great idea to leave now."
"Ashly, we should just tolerate these jerks, it's too risky to stay outside. They are right as a storm like this can definitely kill us if we aren't prepared." Lucas whispers into Ashly's ear.
Ashly grips Lucas shoulder and whispers. "I would rather die than handle this." Ashly then adds more pressure onto his shoulder, but then she lets go. "I just need to calm down a bit, let's talk to them later when I'm more relaxed."
It's now much later in the afternoon, and the rain has yet to stop, it's beginning to darken more. "Lucas I'm glad we got away from them as I was really going to do something I would regret." Ashly says, they are back in that spare room.
"Don't worry Ashly if you were mad I understand, they were jerks anyways. Look as long as you reflect upon your actions I'm alright with this." Lucas says as he pats her back.
"Let's talk to them, I don't want to make this as bad as it really is." Ashly says and they leave the room, they begin to walk through a hallway. "It seems it won't stop raining soon, I'm worried that it might be like this all night."
"That's true Ashly, but let me speak first, it seems that what they would like. I'll be assertive with them so don't worry about me. I'm glad that you managed your anger as we don't need trouble to arise." Lucas says as they continue to walk.
As they get near to a room they overhead a conversation about Ashly. "Stop Lucas. Let's listen for a bit." Ashly whispers, and Lucas nods, they both get closer and listen.
"Like I said, her attitude isn't acceptable, we need them to leave now." One of them said "The problem with that is that we need that boys help, but then again what if she wasn't lying to us? Thats not acceptable, we can't let the man who killed our leader die to a woman."
"What if we kill them right now? It's late at night so they must be sleeping. It won't hurt to try at least, we outnumber them so we are safe." Another one said, Ashly grinds her teeth, and tells Lucas that they should go now.
"It's too darn dark outside Lucas. I hate this, but we can't leave even when I said we should. We should stay up all night just in case, we aren't safe here. Let's leave as soon as it stops raining." Ashly says and Lucas nods.
They return back to their room. "Lucas get your gun in case we have to kill." Ashly says as she grabs her gun, Lucas sighs and grabs his riffle. Ashly can see that he is conflicted a bit. Lucas looks at Ashly, and gives her a confident smile.