"Ouch," Mathias says with a laugh and he's thankful for the distraction. If they can keep this up, this light talk, he thinks he'll be able to make it through the jungle without much of a problem.

"You banish your ex-boyfriends to the jungle?" he asks, looking around as if he expects to see one of them popping out at any point. "They must have really been bad boyfriends for you to send them out here." He won't say it, but he can understand that desire, remembering just how awful things had been for awhile after his last breakup. "Are there monkeys out here?"