| - the one - | [newt maze runner]

chapter #22

well hello there, it's a pleasure seeing you :)

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"after the maze i got picked up by some guys headed to the city. They realized i was immune, patched me up and brought me back here, to Laurence." Gally said as he lead the group to his 'leader'.

It was odd for ren to be so silent, but she needed to be in order to take in her surroundings. She was walking down some stairs in a building, clothes hung from string to dry, and sun peeking out from all open spaces. Men and women surrounded the building, fixing torn clothes, cooking/eating, or talking to their friends.

One of rens talents was the gift of observation, meaning no matter how closed off someone may seem, she could always read them and figure them out just by looking in their eyes or in the way they stood. This of course, had its pros and cons.

pros- Its always been easier for her to read her enemies making her at a high advantage, and since she knew how to read people, it was easier for her to put up her own walls so no one would try and read her.

cons- When she killed, she could almost feel the persons pain just by looking in their eyes and it broke her every time, resulting in her turning off her emotions whenever she had to take a life. Not only this, but ren could also feel things as well, now of course being one of those moments.

The tension this group had with Gally (more so Thomas and Gally) was so thick you could cut it with a knife, and she could practically feel to awkward negative energy radiating off of the two boys.

She guessed gally and Thomas never really got along, and since she knew gally killed someone close to Thomas, it probably didn't make their relationship any better.

"This groups been at war with wicked ever since they took control over the city, but wicked cant hide behind those walls forever." Gally continues, snapping ren out of her thoughts. "The days gonna come and they are gonna pay for what they've done." He finished, and he turned around to face the group since they reached their destination.

"Listen-" He said quietly, "He doesn't get a lot of visitors, so let me do the talking. And try not to stare."

'stare?' Ren thought to herself 'why would we stare?'

She glanced over at Brenda who gave a nervous look, and ren just shrugged her shoulders continuing to follow Gally.

As they slowly walked into what looked like some sort of plant sun room, ren couldn't help the confusing look on her face when she heard the words: "Rose took my nose i suppose" over and over again from some man in the shadows looking at plants.

"Well this isn't sketchy at all" she mumbled to herself, but kept walking beside Thomas down the stairs.

"Gally!" the man said "glad to see you made it back."

"it was a slaughter, there is nothing we can do against those guns" Gally said back.

"No... but they can only poke the hornets nest so long, before they get stung." The man said bringing a flower up to his face to smell, Ren still not being able to see what he looks like in the shadows. "Now who are these people, why are they here?"