The trek was far more exhausting than any of us had anticipated, least of all me. I had been relatively unfit before the plane crash, as I had never cultivated the habit of going to the gym to work out. I did no other exercise aside from running for the bus, or carrying heavy bags of groceries home. Still, being a man made me physically stronger than the rest of the girls. I had known this deep down, but I had not fathomed just how different we were. After packing, we had set off immediately, determined to take advantage of the rest of the daylight - or what little there was left of it, anyway. Time had passed too quickly while we were staring at the mutilated body we had found and packing our things after that, and it was close to twilight already.
We had only been walking for about an h
