After eating, we split up and went back to our respective places to sleep. The girls would be sleeping in the cave for one last night, since there was hardly that much animosity between them, whereas I had ceded the shelter to Nicholas and Dave. There was a part of me that felt that I was being too charitable, but when I looked at them lying down under the shelter we had built together, I knew that I had not lost out on much. The shelter provided a rudimentary roof over one's head, but it provided no real protection from the elements. The benefits were mainly psychological, after all. I curled up around the second fire I had built, dropping off to sleep.
"Forrest, wake up," someone whispered. I took a while to surface from sleep, having been tired out from the vicious fight with the Komod
