My Light in the Forest Chapter 3 Predictions

We are Reading The Light in The Forest in Literature, and were told to predict what would happen in Ch. 3 based on the Vocabulary Here's my predictions:

I think that the soldiers are going to be discussing something trivial at some point. True Son will feel abandoned, and forsaken, and be concealed behind a sycamore tree. At some point, there will be a character that possesses a wry humor and close- to- permanent grimace.