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>>Logic dictates that this setup must lead to the protagonist overhearing about the treasure and killing the kids to rob them, but that can't be it, right? Because that's just not the kind of story I would come up with. It has to be something consensual. Oh. How about they get cooked or otherwise willingly and happily killed as a way for them to celebrate the success of their expedition?

The expedition and the ensuing could be selfless support for the indigenous people from the outset, and it all become logically.