Everyone entered the woods while Aaron was flying over them with suspecting eyes. He still can't forget his assumptions, even connecting everything to their so-called culture why they live in the forest.
However, even though Ellena can feel Aaron's suspecting view, she doesn't have the same weight of suspicion towards the tribe as extreme as him. Instead, she finds it warming seeing them fight for their lives, and protecting each other, which rarely happens in the city where status is power.
In this place. Ellena views it as a haven for people like her, who are alone.
They started to get deeper into the forest. This was part of their plan, that they will kill the only female Giant Evergreen Ape so that other monkeys would leave the place. But for Aaron, it's a stupid plan since it is so-called the only female so it means it has greater power to control another male.