She doesn't mean to make a point of it, but it is difficult to miss. In the end it isn't all that surprising either. Despite her reputation, Himeka has been painfully compliant for most of her life and after her initial outbursts of rebellion, and since fallen back into quiet watchfulness since they were given clothes and left the forest.

Having Estinien cut off suddenly from his thought, Himeka's gaze flashes towards the soldier before she, too, is ordered onto the ground. But rather than face the whip, she bows her head and moves to kneel beside him, curling her tail around his feet on the deck of the boat in silent reassurance.

It's a good moment before she whispers--

"I watched it all end. In a dream."