Fervency

E P I L O U G E

EPILOUGUE

Darkness.

No. She couldn't die now. Not yet.

Immense fear.

That was all she could feel. And when her eyes opened, she felt that-times ten.

Her vision blurred for several moments, until finally, she could focus. Once she was back to reality, pain burned within her. Every piece-every inch of her-burned like fire. She grunted and wailed, wanting desperately to make it stop.

And that is when he came into view. A man with rat-like features and a grin that chilled her to the bone. Her body began trembling, activating her fight or flight mechanism. But why? Why did she feel pure fear when looking into the eyes of this man?

So, Elodie thought hard. Desperately trying to recall her last memory...

She was running with Thomas and Minho. They just had three more turns to make, then they were out.

One more turn was left. Thomas and Minho made it, but instantaneously, a metal beam flung in front of her. She slammed into the object with full force. Staggering backwards, she fell to the pavement, gasping for air. It was as if the breath had been stolen straight from her lungs.

Clank, Click, Whirr.

Clank, Click, Whirr.

And the last thing that came into her vision, was a griever's stinger.

"You're lucky to be alive" the man said. His voice was muffled by the loud ringing in her ears that didn't seem to stop. She winced, squeezing her eyes close. Her head was pulsating. When she opened her eyes once more, she found that her arm had an IV placed in it.

"Who are you?" she demanded, but her voice was weak. His lips twisted into a sickening smile as he watched her closely, refusing to reply. The burning came back now, and her arms began to pulsate too.

Suddenly, she was unconscious in a matter of seconds.

Images fire worked inside her head. She was regaining parts of her memory.

The people who put them in the maze were WICKED.

She worked for a secret government agency with her father. One that was made to ensure justice. In the beginning, she was sent on a mission to infiltrate WICKED's headquarters. That is when she found them experimenting on children and teenagers.

Next, she was rescuing people from the maze. Multiple mazes. She belonged to the new resistance called the "Right Arm" which served only to destroy WICKED. Her father was first in command.

She was beside a woman now, pointing a gun to her neck. Across from her stood the rat-man. His name was Janson. He held a gun as well.

POP

He shot the gun. But Elodie ducked out of the way, pulling the hostage with her. Instead, the bullet hit her hostage. The man collapsed in grief.

She was captured now. Janson had been transferred to one of WICKED's locations along with her. He made clear that they had captured her father, forcing her to watch him in interrogation about information of the Right Arm. WICKED threw her into the maze as a new test subject but she tampered with the memory erasing process.

This time, it was different. She made friends. She led her friends to escape. When they entered the building, men in black army gear surrounded them. Janson came into view and told the men to kill them all.