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The following days are completely dizzy and dusty. The water and food are dangerously going low to their favor and the heat on the other hand is mercilessly bugging them.
The daylight falls back into a dark pitch and the group stops for the night in the middle of the cold desert, not finding any shelter nearby. Everyone goes to sleep, knowing there's more to go for their destination.
Katharine snuggles into Newt, seeking warmth and he gladly wraps his arms around her, pulling her as closer to him as possible.
Before she falls into a dreamless sleep, Thomas urgently wakes everyone up again.
"Hey. Hey. Get up. I see something."
The exhaustion is not helping her at the moment but she pushes herself up to find what Thomas's discovery is. It's light.
"What is it? What..." Newt trails off, looking around confusedly.
"It's lights." Katherine mumbles looking at the foot of the mountain, where a bunch of light illuminates its surroundings.
"We made it." Newt states, but his comment is followed by a loud noise. Thunder.
The clouds are gathering up, flashing with lightning. The look of it is threatening.
"Let's go. We gotta go." Thomas is the one to shout and bring the group back into the scene.
Katherine pushes herself forward, not wanting to be a prey of the lightning bolts. Knowing others are just behind her. Her heart pounds and chest hurts from deep, ragged breaths as she desperately gulps down the dusty air.
As they get closer, the lights grow to become buildings. The relief is almost overwhelming at the sight ahead.
Katherine feels her spirits lift but immediately squashes them back down. Getting her hopes up is something she's never to do again. Not until all this is over.
Several lightning bolts strike into the ground, nearly missing them as they run towards the building.
As they're about to make it, another loud lightning goes off, stopping Katherine in her tracks to look back. Minho is lying on the ground motionlessly and smoke trails off his clothes. "Minho!"
Running back to him, Newt and Aris swiftly hoist him up, slinging Minho's arms over their shoulders. Katherine helps her brother up, who's also on the ground, but conscious. They make it back to the building as Frypan holds the door open and wildly gestures to them to get inside. The door is locked behind them as they pass through it.
"Put him down. Watch his head." Thomas instructs as Aris and Newt lay Minho on the floor. "Who's got a light?"
They shake his body and call out his name. Finally, he wakes up, groaning and looking around with confusion making the group sigh in relief.
