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"Don’t matter," the gled with every word "You got it, you’ll know soon enough"

"Well, what do you bloody want?" Newt asked, stepping up to stand next to Minho "What’s it matter to you if we’re Cranks or not?"

The wo as if she hadn’t heard the questions "How’d you get in the Scorch? Where’d you coet here?"

Thoence evident in her words The Cranks they’d seen back at the dorm had seemed absolutely insane, like aniroup had appeared out of nowhere Nothing lay in the opposite direction from the town

Minho leaned over to consult with Newt, then turned and stepped closer to Thomas "What do we tell these people?"

Thomas had no clue "I don’t know The truth? It can’t hurt"

"The truth?" Minho said sarcastically "What an idea, Tho brilliant, as usual" He faced the Cranks again "We were sent here by WICKED Came out of a hole just a little while that way, froo one hundredto you?"

Once again, it was as if they hadn’t heard a word he’d said

"Not all Cranks are gone," the man said "Not all of them are past the Gone" He said that last word in a way that made it sound like the name of a place "Different ones at different levels Best you learn who to ht quick if you’re co our way"

"What’s your way?" Minho asked "You caht? Is that where all these Cranks live? Is there food and water there?"

Thoe as Minho―to ask a est they capture these two Cranks and make them answer But for theat all, and they split again to circle back around to the side of the Gladers closest to the town

Once they met up in the spot where they’d first spoken, the distant town al to float between the "If you don’t have it yet, you’ll have it soon Saroup The ones that’re supposed to kill you"

The two strangers then turned around and ran back toward the cluster of buildings on the horizon, leaving Thomas and the other Gladers in stunned silence Soon, any evidence of the running Cranks was lost in a blur of heat and dust

"Other group?" someone said Maybe Frypan Tho Cranks and worrying about the Flare to notice

"Wonder if they’re talking about roup" This was definitely Aris Thoaze

"Group B?" he asked him "You think they’ve already made it to the town?"

"Hello!" Minho snapped "Who cares? You’d think the little part about theetter Maybe this stuff about the Flare?"

Thoht of the tattoo on the back of his neck Those simple words that scared him "Maybe when she said "˜you’ she didn’tdown at hismark "Maybe she meant "

"How’s she gonna knoho you are?" Minho retorted "Plus, doesn’t matter If soht as well try to get all of us Right?"

"You’re so sweet," Frypan said with a snort "Go ahead and die with Thouilt" He cast his special look that , but Tho in there somewhere

"Well, what do we do now?" Jack asked He had Winston’s arm around one of his shoulders, but the former Keeper of the Blood House seeth Luckily the sheet covered the hideous parts of his head

"What do you think?" Newt asked, but then he nodded at Minho

Minho rolled his eyes "We keep going, that’s what Look, we don’t have a choice If we don’t go to that toe’re gonna die out here of sunstroke or starvation If we do go, we’ll have some shelter for a while, maybe even food Cranks or no Cranks, that’s where we’re going"

"And Group B?" Tholanced over at Aris "Or whoever they were talking about What if they really do wanna kill us? All we have to fight with are our hands"

Minho flexed his right ar out with, I’ll show ’eo runnin’"

Thoht? Or if it’s not therunts who like to eat humans? Or a thousand Cranks?"

"Thoh "Would everyone just shut their holes and slim it? No more questions Unless you have an idea that doesn’t involve absolute certain death, then quit your pipin’ and let’s take the only chance we got Get it?"

Thoh he didn’t knohere the impulse came from Somehow in a few sentences Minho had cheered hio, to move, to do That was it

"That’s better," Minho said with a satisfied nod "Anybody else wanna pee their pants and cry for Mo

"Good Newt, you lead up front this tiet soive you a break Let’s go"

And so they did Aris held the pack this tiround, it felt so good The only hard part was holding that sheet up, his ar weak and rubbery But on and on they went, so