The Burn

Katniss wasn't expecting to stumble into a portal to a world just as destroyed-but different in its own right.

Newt wasn't expecting to find a confused girl in the middle of the Scorch once he and his buddies had found the Right Arm.

Her world is kill or be killed.
So is his.
Well, sort of.
Katniss Everdeen took her sister's place in the 74th Hunger Games.
Newt was dumped into a maze full of other lost boys, rescued by a brother, and has fought his way in the Scorch. Now, he's just as lost in the Right Arm, searching for a friend he knows is gone for good.

Both worlds are broken, Katniss doesn't know who to trust and where to go. But Newt is the glue, and he sticks with her.

They're not meant to stay together-but hearts don't always listen, even when they know the truth.

Portals show up, left and right, an unnatural anomaly. Sending humans, cranks, and kids from the Hunger Games everywhere across different globes.

Being split apart is a given. Everyone is eventually. But for some reason, Katniss is managing to stay beside Newt, and she knows their time is borrowed.
The portals will pull them apart eventually. And so she won't let go of his hand. No matter what.

Newt knows something Katniss doesn't. He knows he's not immune from the Flare virus infecting his world.

He can't stay with her.

They're not meant to be.

And the portals don't relent. They pull, and pull, and pull.

Time is up.

Thomas refuses to give up, and so, during the dangerous portal open-ups, the search for Minho is continued.

But not everything goes to plan. Friends are lost. Secrets are spilled.

Katniss must make a choice. Stay in this new world and find a way to close these looming portals, or try to return home by throwing herself into any given portals?

Glue can't stick things together forever. Things come apart. Katniss could be lost in time.

Forever.