Julan was not about to try to argue with his father over punishment. He knew things could be much worse, an as far as he was concerned, anything that could get them off the topic of their actions that night was a good thing. He simply nodded in agreement and hoped that it would put a rest to the topic. 

Kaleeth had no objections to the punishment. For the most part, she was inwardly preoccupied with her own thoughts about Aurana. Being the compassionate soul that she was, Kaleeth was surprised about how Aurana described her own life. It had been mentioned a few times, by both Aurana and Julan, that she was hardly allowed to leave her house. Provided that was true, it seemed that, on the surface, Aurana's parents were fiercely overprotective of her. Kaleeth could hardly imagine what it would be like to be confined in such a manner, and it made her understand why she would risk sneaking out of her house against her parents' wishes. Otherwise, Kaleeth would have felt it responsible to inform her parents that their child had misbehaved. 

As sympathetic as Kaleeth was, what concerned her the most were the possible reasons for how restricted Auruana's life was. During her childhood in her village, she had lost friends to the dangers of the marsh, particularly as an initiate hunter. She had even lost her own brother. As the master hunter, her father had resisted the urge to become too protective of her, but she remembered times when grieving parents of other initiates had lost a child, then tried to shelter their surviving children from any danger. She wondered if the same was happening now with Aurana.