"Aside from the dinosaurs," Veronica said wryly, "the biggest thing out here's probably the direwolves. And unless you mess with the Stark family, they generally won't mess with you. And the boars can get pretty nasty, but mostly it's a lot of birds and monkeys." She left tangling with the boars to people who enjoyed that kind of thing. She contributed to the community in other ways.

Playing tour guide wasn't usually one of them - not, at least, to this extent. She generally got people through the whirlwind of the meet and greet, along with an introduction to the Compound. After that, she just wasn't suited to it. She was too caustic even for the first much of the time. Now she was out in the middle of the jungle with a man she hardly knew, and her standards for acidic quips seemed to have faltered and failed. She was seriously losing her touch.