It's easier to keep going after they've rested and eaten. Easier to move, to stay alert, to be prepared for whatever may happen. If the day goes the same as yesterday, they won't have much to worry about until sundown.

And the day will go the same, if the first flicks of shadows Oliver sees are anything to go by.

(Maybe he is back in liànyù, he thinks. Maybe this is where he belongs for all the things he's done.)

[For finding each other, threading with each other, etc.]