If it was fate

Slightly glancing at the men standing behind her, over her shoulder, Joanna questioned their competency in her mind.

Could the General's men be relied on in these circumstances, to be a good navigator if they happened to get lost?

However, she doubted asking them if they were a good navigator. She was afraid if she told them that she did not know anything about the part of the forest that they would get into and asked them to guide her there, they might force her to go back to the orphanage as they thought that it was not safe there, considering how persistent they were to fulfill the command of the General.

But if she chose to step back and went back to the orphanage empty-handedly, what would happen to that child?