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branches to set around the fire.
    Zoe had seen all of it for filming, except the latrine. She’d taken their word for the workmanship of that. Then she quietly thanked Chip for providing base camp with a bathroom that at least sort of resembled normal. If she’d had to use an outdoor bathroom like these guys … well, she would have walked off the show long ago.
    The only other team that had even remotely set up camp as well as these guys was the outdoorsy team with Rick as their leader. The rest of his team members, his brother and sister-in-law and high-school aged nephew, had done a good job on their camp.
    But this rowing team really knew how to work together, and it showed. As did their muscles.
    She’d thought Rick was built, but these boys looked as if they’d been sculpted to resemble the perfect male specimen thanks to hours spent on the water practicing their rowing techniques. Obviously, all that hard work building muscles had paid off. They were easily one of the leading teams now on their survival skill alone.
    â€œLooks like you guys have everything covered here.” She made a big deal of really looking around. “I guess there’s not much else for me to do but give you the new map.”
    â€œWhat new map?” one of the men asked.
    â€œTomorrow you’ll use this map to find your way to a new location where you’ll meet up with the other teams and compete in your first team challenge.”
    â€œYou mean this wasn’t the first challenge?” another guy asked, motioning to the camp around him.
    Zoe nodded and smiled. “It was. But this game isn’t only about surviving. It’s also about competing against the other teams. I’ll tell you more about the challenges tomorrow with the rest of the teams present. Now, before I leave, do you have any other questions for me? I’ll try my best to answer them.”
    One of the guys who’d been fairly quiet the whole time, standing at the back of the pack as if he didn’t want to be noticed, finally stepped forward. “Do you have a question?” she asked him, getting a good look at him for the first time. There was something sort of familiar about him. Probably just because she’d seen him briefly when she’d announced the start of the show.
    He shook his head, but narrowed his eyes at her. It made her feel as if she was being evaluated. Inspected. It made her uncomfortable.
    â€œOkay then,” she said, forcing herself to relax. “I’ll see you all tomorrow. Try to get a good night’s sleep. You’re going to need it.”
    She smiled for the camera one last time and fought the urge to roll her eyes at having to say the same stupid line five times. Hopefully tomorrow she’d only have to say things once since she’d be meeting with all the teams at the same time.
    Chip and Zoe started down the barely marked path that would take them back to base camp saying nothing for the first few minutes.
    â€œYou did great today … with all of this,” Chip said.
    â€œThanks. I feel like I’m just copying what I saw Spencer do when he’d hosted our shows. It feels … weird.”
    â€œWell, you’d never know it from how you were today. Every time you had to film something, you seemed really confident and comfortable.” He glanced toward her. “And completely charismatic. The camera loves you. The contestants love you. I can already tell that America is going to fall in love with you too.”
    â€œI hope you’re right.”
    Maybe I won’t be the villain for a change.
    â€œI knew having you host was a good idea.”
    They fell into silence again, the sounds of crunching leaves and twigs under their footsteps blending with the noises of insects and animals roaming the woods. Her thoughts went back to the last camp and the guy who’d looked at her differently than the others. Why? And why did he seem so