Here's the hook.

Sword cuts through the marble like butter. The King's Advisor states the obvious, offers a reward. "We need the three of you to go to this cave, get the treasure and bring it back to the King. As a reward, you will each be permitted to select one item of your choice to keep. Not the butter knife though. The king likes the butter knife."

It would be foolish to trust them to go it alone with boy though, wouldn't it? It would. They will be joined with six members of the city guard, and a knight of King Aldair's court; Sir Helut Mobley. (the guards are meh, but the knight is about two levels higher than the group.)

So yeah. Obviously they roll with it, the boy leads them on their journey to the cave. The boy is a quiet kid, kind of stares a lot and only speaks if he's answering a question or making an ominous statement.

Along the way they reach a small hamlet that has been nearly destroyed. Big footprints are everywhere and it wouldn't even take the skills of our party tracker (Aust) to figure out the direction that the bodies were dragged. He rolls a successful check anyway, but he didn't need to. Not really.

The PC's don't give a shit but Sir Helut explains that he is honor bound to address the situation, and with all of them being in his care, they'll be joining him. So they follow the trail to a small cave on the hillside wherein a small clan of ogres live. There are four ogres inside, the bones of a wide variety of animals (human included) litter the floor. In the far back corner of the cave is a crude but effective cage which houses about two dozen women and children.

Here's how the PC's approached the situation. Tobin snuck inside and struck first. With all the attention on him, Yorik and Jynxie and Aust came in. Aust fired arrows at them while Yorik and Jynxie just ran in screaming and slashing. The knight and guards were a bit more rational about the whole ordeal. The kid stayed outside with the dog.

In the end four of the guards and all of the ogres were killed. Yorik lost his eye. The prisoners were freed. All was right in the world. They camp in the tattered remains of the village for the night.