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“Find our way out, Greenie,” Newt said. “Solve the buggin’ Maze and find our way home.”
“This here’s the Box. Once a month, we get a Newbie like you, never fails. Once a week, we get supplies, clothes, some food. Ain’t needin’ a lot—pretty much run ourselves in the Glade.”
“Glade’s cut into four sections.” He held up his fingers as he counted off the next four words. “Gardens, Blood House, Homestead, Deadheads. You got that?”
“Blood House—where we raise and slaughter animals.”
“Homestead—stupid place is twice as big than when the first of us got here because we keep addin’ to it when they send us wood and klunk. Ain’t pretty, but it works. Most of us sleep outside anyway.”
“Call that the Deadheads. Graveyard’s back in that corner, in the thicker woods.
“Two years, I’ve been here. Ain’t none been here longer. The few before me are already dead.” Thomas felt his eyes widen, his heart quicken. “Two years we’ve tried to solve this thing, no luck.
“Greenie, we’ve never had two Newbies show up in the same month, much less two days in a row.”
She’s the last one. Ever.
Now it was confirmed: the red light from its eye cast a creepy glow on six capital letters smeared across the torso, as if they had been written with blood: WICKED
Its body resembled a gigantic slug, sparsely covered in hair and glistening with slime, grotesquely pulsating in and out as it breathed. It had no distinguishable head or tail, but front to end it was at least six feet long, four feet thick.
“I nominate this shank to replace me as Keeper of the Runners.”
My memory’s fading already, Tom. I won’t remember much when I wake up. We can pass the Trials. It has to end. They sent me as a trigger.
It was you and me, Tom. We did this to them. To us.
WORLD IN CATASTROPHE: KILLZONE EXPERIMENT DEPARTMENT
Tom, I just triggered the Ending.
The Maze is a code, Tom. The Maze is a code.
FLOAT CATCH BLEED DEATH STIFF PUSH
So he was going to get stung by a Griever. Go through the Changing. On purpose.
The Maze was never meant to be solved. It’s all been a trial. They want the winners—or survivors—to do something important.”
“It was hidden in the wall movements of the Maze for a reason. I should know—I was there when the Creators did it.”
