"Yeah, what else can we do?" She shrugs big and exaggerated as she makes it to the crossroads and hangs a right, starting to head down the path towards the lake.

"Well, at least we can eat. You hungry?" She asks, looking him over with one of her eyes glancing at him to the side.

As they approach the lake, there's no sign of Nine. There is, however, the Wizard sitting on the bench by the lake. She's got a cup of steaming something in her hands, settled in her lap, and she looks like she's staring into the lake. Probably at the fish?