Tuesday, February 25, 2014

The Scorch Trials -Epilogue

Posted on 10:55 PM by Unknown
This is not a time to let emotions interfere with the task at hand. Yes, some events have gone in a direction we didn’t foresee. Not all is ideal—things have gone wrong—but we’ve made tremendous progress and have collected many of the needed patterns. I feel a great amount of hope. I expect all of us to maintain our professional demeanor and remember...
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The Scorch Trials - Chapter 65

Posted on 10:53 PM by Unknown
He sat straight up, covered in sweat. Even before he could fully compute his surroundings, before all the information traveled through the nerve wires and cognitive functions of his brain, he knew that everything was wrong. That everything had been taken from him all over again. He lay on the ground, alone, in a room. The walls, the ceiling, the...
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the Scorch Trials - Chapter 64

Posted on 10:52 PM by Unknown
He awoke, blinked, wiped his eyes and saw nothing but pure white. No shapes, no shadows, no variation, nothing. Just white. A flicker of panic until he realized he must be dreaming. Strange, but a dream for sure. He could feel his body, feel his fingers against his skin. Feel himself breathing. Hear himself breathing. Yet he was surrounded by...
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The Scorch Trials - Chapter 63

Posted on 10:47 PM by Unknown
Thomas tried hard not to think about things as the next couple of hours passed. He’d made a stand, but then all that tension and courage and victory kind of trickled away as the group went through the motions of the most ordinary of activities. Hot food. Cold drinks. Medical attention. Wonderfully long showers. Fresh clothes. Through it all, Thomas...
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The Scorch Trials - Chapter 62

Posted on 10:45 PM by Unknown
Brenda looked at Thomas with panicked eyes, her face full of pain as the stranger dragged her across the metal floor of the Berg. Toward the hatch and certain death. When he was halfway there, Thomas acted. He jumped forward and slammed into the man’s knees, tackling him to the floor; the gun clattered on the ground next to him. Brenda fell to the...
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The Scorch Trials - Chapter 61

Posted on 10:44 PM by Unknown
Thomas knew they couldn’t waste any more time. No questions, no fear, no bickering. Only action. “Come on!” he yelled, pulling Brenda’s arm as he stepped out of the pod. He slipped and toppled over, landing with a wet smush in the mud. He pushed himself up, spitting the slimy stuff out of his mouth and rubbing it from his eyes, and scrambled back...
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The Scorch Trials - Chapter 60

Posted on 10:43 PM by Unknown
The lightning exploded all around him with deafening cracks of thunder; plumes of dirt flew into the air from every direction. Several people screamed—one was cut off abruptly, a girl. And that burning smell. Overwhelming. The strikes of electricity subsided as quickly as they had begun. But light continued to flash in the clouds, and rain started...
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The Scorch Trials - Chapter 59

Posted on 10:42 PM by Unknown
Teresa handed Thomas a really long knife, almost a sword. He couldn’t imagine where she’d been hiding these things, but she now held a short dagger in addition to her spear. As the lighted giants stepped closer and closer, Minho and Harriet spoke to their respective groups, moving them around, positioning them, their shouts and commands torn away...
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The Scorch Trials - Chapter 58

Posted on 10:41 PM by Unknown
The squeal of metal was deafening as the square sections slowly spun on their axles. Thomas had his hands to his ears, trying to keep the sound out. The others in the group were doing the same. All around them, scattered evenly and fully encircling the area in which they stood, patches of desert ground rotated until they disappeared, each one eventually...
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The Scorch Trials - Chapter 57

Posted on 10:39 PM by Unknown
Despite the wind and the hubbub of people, the world quieted around Thomas for a minute, as if his ears had been stuffed with cotton. He fell to his knees and numbly reached out to touch the flapping orange ribbon. This was the safe haven? Not a building, a shelter, something? Then, as quickly as it had disappeared, sound rushed back in, snapping...
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The Scorch Trials - Chapter 56

Posted on 10:38 PM by Unknown
The wind intensified, whipping and swirling. Thunder rumbled in the darkening sky, giving Thomas an excuse to pull away from Teresa. He decided again to hide his hard feelings. Time was running out and they still had a long way to go. Doing his best acting job, he gave Teresa a smile and said, “Guess I got it—you did a bunch of weird stuff, but...
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The Scorch Trials - Chapter 55

Posted on 10:37 PM by Unknown
It took every ounce of Thomas’s willpower not to stop and turn toward her. What? Why didn’t you tell me about him back in the Maze? As if he needed another reason to dislike either of them. “Why’d you guys stop talking?” Aris suddenly asked. “You yappin’ about me in those pretty little heads of yours?” Impossibly, he didn’t seem the least bit sinister...
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The Scorch Trials - Chapter 54

Posted on 10:36 PM by Unknown
Whispers in the dark. That was what Thomas heard when he began returning to consciousness. Low but harsh, like sandpaper rubbing across his eardrums. He didn’t understand any of it. It was so dark it took him a second to realize that his eyes were open. Something cool and hard pressed against his face. The ground. He hadn’t moved since the gas had knocked...
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The Scorch Trials - Chapter 53

Posted on 10:33 PM by Unknown
Thomas didn’t know if he was dead or alive, but it felt like he was asleep. Aware of himself, but as if through a haze. He slipped into yet another memory-dream. Thomas is sixteen. He’s standing in front of Teresa and some girl he doesn’t recognize. And Aris. Aris? All three of them are looking at him with grim faces. Teresa is crying. “It’s time...
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