In Martel's retelling of this, if he should ever deign to retell this (and he might, if Adelaide gets wind of it and he feels the need to correct any misconceptions), it will definitely involve him finding her. Especially as his help had not been so much desired as blatantly settled for.

He is not quite such a pedant as to announce it presently, mind you, when there are slightly more important things to attend to.

"He'll take the easiest route," he predicts, casting his eye from a vantage point nearby her chosen tree. "Damnably skittish creatures."

Even war horses are temperamental that way. Get the damned thing to do anything that isn't scamper towards some bloody apples -

"This way."