We spent the rest of the night trying to stay awake, failing, lapsing into an uneasy sleep, then jerking awake again. After the horrible scare we had had with the vines, none of us felt good about going to sleep. Although we had agreed that we would take turns to stay awake and keep watch, the other three who were meant to be asleep had a hard time dropping off, too.
Eventually, day broke. I had stayed awake for most of the night, sitting up and staring into the darkness that stretched on and on before me, cursing how interminable the night had seemed. When I woke up from the last nap I had managed to get, the rest of the girls were already up. Elsa and Yvonne had already gone foraging for fruit, and they had managed to pluck a large bunch of bananas and a few coconuts.
Unlike the banan
