☆彡 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝘇𝗲 𝗿𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿
❛ 'cause someone is out there, and they're sending out flares. ❜
FLARE | NOUN OR ADJECTIVE
a sudden brief burst of bright
flame or light, a sudden burst
of intense...
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ "Told you they weren't coming back, Chuck."
Kennedy's lips tugged into a frown, trying to ignore Newt as he patted Chuck's shoulder. Her eyes gazed over the empty cavern of the maze doors; searching each corner; analysing every nook, and every cranny, all in hopes of spotting the three boys somewhere, of them suddenly appearing as they ran through the doors.
She hoped for something.
Anything.
Anything to show that they had made it.
Several of them had camped by the doors. While Kennedy had wanted to avoid hearing their screams, Chuck and Gally had not been able to leave. Though, she supposed that trying to sleep had been a relatively big waste of time. Both Kennedy and Newt had only ended up by the maze doors before the sun came up, anyway, and they hadn't gotten any less sleep outside than inside. Time was slow as it passed, and more and more gladers had joined them by the doors. No one had spoken; they had all just waited, anxiously.
But, as expected, the doors had pulled open and revealed no one. Newt's words had been blunt, but true.
