It seemed he had not seen or heard from her since the morning hours. Aimee had separated herself from them for an unknown reason, but she felt convicted in thinking the worst of her. She elected to hope for the best, as well as toward Noah's family. 

[i]"Oh, okay."[/i]

She too had little to say, not only because there were long expanses of time on travel where one didn't say anything to anyone, but also because of their recent fight had been fresh in her mind and she didn't know what she could talk about that wouldn't annoy him. 

"I was thinking about walking ahead of the caravan and maybe doing some hunting in the direction we're heading. Do you think I'd run into anything by the river?"

It wasn't likely she would find anything close by. The wagons were quite loud and so any normal large sized animal would be far from them, but up ahead, she figured she might just run into something.

"Would that be something you feel up to, or do you want to stay here?"

It took a little motivation from her study of Yahal to motivate herself to invite him. Part of her just wanted to chance it and go ahead herself, but she knew it wasn't faithful to their marriage to treat him as such. She was seeking any way she could to repair their relationship, but she could feel how hurt it was. With his stubbornness and unwillingness to change, as well as hers, it was likely set for only pain ahead. Yahal's word gave those who don't worship him the right to leave the relationship of those who do, but for her, it was asked that she stay with him no matter what.