Summary

Ben Simon found a goat in the desert. Though it should have belonged to Sia, it preferred Yael. Yael wondered if Sia knew about her affair with Ben Simon because of the goat’s reaction to her. Sia began refusing to walk with Yael and even bathed alone. When the group finally found a place to stay for a while, Yael found a solitary cave in which she could stay during the time of her period. She preferred to be alone. Yael felt guilty because of the way she was sinning. Her father had even less to do with her, praying over the food she gave him as if he were casting out demons from it before he ate it. When Yael mentioned his prayer to him she realized too late it was the prayer of the dead he was saying...