That isn't the first time he's said something to that effect, that he's missed her and that he didn't want her here. And then sure that she would do better than he would in the woods... ha, still so confident in her abilities.

"Should have gotten here soon so you wouldn't get lost out there on your own," she teases. Then keeping her voice light for Vax's sake and her own. Half the trick to surviving is keeping up the act. "This food, it wouldn't happen to come with a bottle would it? Or a tankard...shot glass? After the day I've had, I'm not feeling especially picky."