Rogue | Group B → The Maze Runner¹

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● [ viii . one year and four months ]
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OVER THE course of seven months, Rogue had watched three more girls die.

Kate was first.

She had attempted to climb to the top of the Maze walls using the vines that lined the Glen. Upon reaching the top, she realised the vines didn't extend all the way. Unable to find a safe way down, she fell. She was buried in the Corpsewood, only five weeks after the sending.

Then, Alice.

Rogue hadn't known her well, if at all. All she knew was that she worked under Diana as a Chopper.

Rogue returned to the Glen one day to hear that Alice had been cut clean in half by jumping into the box as it descended. It was a welcome sight for the Blondie, Rogue assumed. Alice was buried three months after Kate.

Last was Tiera.

She had volunteered to spend a night in the Maze, embarking with only a backpack of food and water. The next afternoon, Rogue and Miyoko found it mangled on the floor, her clothes torn to shreds in the heart of the Maze.

"Oh," Miyoko said, slowing her pace.

They had just returned from the Seventh and final section of the Maze, having mapped it completely.

What should have been an evening of celebration was suddenly replaced by a burial. Another one. Only four months after the last.

Rogue stopped beside her, sighing. "We knew we'd find something eventually," she said.

She stooped, lifting the rags from the ground. They were stained with blood, Rogue noticed. Likely a Crawler, but they could never be sure.

"I guess," Miyoko replied, shifting her backpack to her front and unzipping it. Rogue gathered Tiera's clothes and piled them into the bag. "I kinda hoped we wouldn't, though."

Rogue had silently harboured the same hope, despite knowing deep down that there was almost no chance Tiera had survived. No one survived a night in the Maze.

Rogue and Miyoko stood there in silence for a few minutes, staring at the ground. It was a reckless decision for Tiera to make, but it had ultimately been Ximena's. Rogue cursed her inwardly. Ximena constantly spoke of sacrifice and courage, but all Rogue felt was Bitterness. She should have never let her go.