The Runner

Shortly after Alby, we began to lose more and more of us every so often. The turning of age began to drain the passion of saving lives and instead filled most of us with a need to save our own.

Teresa was convinced that it needed to happen - a necessary evil. But even Thomas had stopped believing in her half-hearted, desperate mumbles. But I had known them practically since birth.

So, as Dr. Paige stared me down, watching the green liquid injected into my forearm, drag me into unconsciousness- I smiled, the most poisonous one I could muster given the sedatives.

Newt, Ably, Siggy, Ben, Jack, Minho, Winston, Billy- Even Gally...

All of us would make it out of The Maze

Or we will die trying.