Status Quo
He never asked her to accompany him on these excursions, which did not improve matters either, what could he possibly be hiding?. They already accomplished so much together, in Steven’s words, and this was his thing. He desired for it to remain that way, and she did respected his decision of having some alone time, but she had some weird feeling about this situation.
Knowing Where He Went
Jessica was fortunate enough to be in good enough health to venture into the forest by herself on the one day each week that Steven had to report to the office for work. She knew roughly where Steven would travel and had prepared the materials she needed. He was wandering down a narrow trail he had carved out for himself that appeared to go on forever when she covertly seen him enter the woodland a couple of times earlier.