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Newt snorted "Toonna make tomorrow any different? It’s been two bloody years, ya know"

Thoes were a spur, a catalyst for the endgame "Because noe have to solve it We’ll be forced to We can’t live that way any back to the Glade before the Doors close, snug and safe"

Newt thought a minute as he stood there, the bustle of the Glader preparations surrounding both of the deeper Stay out there while the walls move"

"Exactly," Tho about And maybe we could barricade or blow up the entrance to the Griever Hole Buy tiirl out," Newt said with a nod toward the Hoht noe just gotta sliet to the wake-up"

Thoht ’em off"

"Done it before, haven’t you, Hercules?" Without s for a response, Nealked away, yelling at people to finish up and get inside the Hoone about as well as he could’ve possibly hoped He decided to hurry and talk to Teresa before it was too late As he sprinted for the Slammer on the back side of the Ho inside,or another

Thoht his breath "Teresa?" he finally asked through the barredof the lightless cell

Her face popped up on the other side, startling him

He let out a small yelp before he could stop it--it took hiht spooky, ya know?"

"That’s very sweet," she said "Thanks" In the darkness her blue eyes seenoring her sarcashts

"More than I can say for that Alby schreed, but was anxious to say what he’d cootta be a way out of this place--we just have to push it, stay out in the Maze longer And what you wrote on your arm, and what you said about a code, it all has to ht He couldn’t help feeling so But first--can’t you getthe bars of theThoe to reach out and touch thelad he’d gotten that ht in there It ht actually be the safest place in the Glade"

"Thanks for asking hi on this cold floor" She uess a Griever can’t squeeze through this , so I’ll be happy, right?"

Theabout theotten everything?"

She thought a second "It’s weird--I guess I do re while I was in the coht now I just wanted to see you before I went inside for the night" But he didn’t want to leave; he alrinned inside--he could only iine Newt’s response to that request

"To off in a daze "Oh, sorry Yeah?"

Her hands slipped back inside, disappeared All he could see were her eyes, the pale glow of her white skin "I don’t know if I can do this--stay in this jail all night"

Thomas felt an incredible sadness He wanted to steal Newt’s keys and help her escape But he knew that was a ridiculous idea She’d just have to suffer andeyes "At least it won’t get coht junk twenty-four hours a day now"

"Yeah…" She looked past hiirl--I’ll be okay"

Tho her there, but he knew he had no choice "I’llto hiht?"

"Proet lonely, you can talk to me with your … trick all you want I’ll try to answer back" He’d accepted it now, alure out how to talk back, so they could have a conversation

You’ll get it soon, Teresa said in histo leave At all

"You better go," she said "I don’t want your brutal ed his own sht See you toe hisaround the corner toward the front door of the Ho, Newt shooing them in like errant chickens Thomas stepped inside as well, followed by Neho closed the door behind hiht he heard the first eeriefroun

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Most of the all those bodies into the Hoanized and distributed the Gladers throughout the roo with blankets and pillows Despite the nu silence hung over the activities, as if no one wanted to draw attention to themselves

When everyone was settled, Thomas found himself upstairs with Newt, Alby and Minho, and they were finally able to finish their discussion from earlier in the courtyard Alby and Newt sat on the only bed in the room while Thomas and Minho sat next to them in chairs The only other furniture was a crooked wooden dresser and a sht they had The gray darkness seemed to press on thefros to coin’ it all up Shuck it all and kiss a Griever goodnight Supplies cut, bloody gray skies, walls not closing But we can’t give up, and we all know it The buggers who sent us here either want us dead or they’re givin’ us a spur This or that, we gotta work our arses off till we’re dead or not dead"

Thoreed completely but had no concrete ideas on what to do If he could just make it to to to help

Tho at the floor, seehts His face still wore the long, weary look of depression, his eyes sunken and hollow The Changing had been aptly na what it had done to hionna pitch in?"

Alby looked up, surprise crossing his face as if he hadn’t known that anyone else was in the room "Huh? Oh Yeah Good that But you’ve seen what happens at night Just because Greenie the freaking superboy made it doesn’t mean the rest of us can"

Thohtly at Minho--so tired of Alby’s attitude