The maze cutter, p.28
The Maze Cutter,
p.28
“It’s him.” She pointed at Newt. “They know who he is and... she wants to keep track of him. You and your kid are just lucky you made a new friend. Otherwise you would’ve been dead long before you made it to the pits. Now goodbye and have a wonderful life. Short and sweet, as they say.”
With that, she jumped in the truck and drove off, the back tires spitting up rocks and dirt.
“Who was she talking about?” Keisha asked. “Who is... she?”
Newt only shook his head, staring at the truck as it grew smaller with distance. Finally it turned a corner around some trees and was gone. He looked at the ground.
“Later,” was the only word that came out.
She.
He couldn’t bring himself to say her name.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
James Dashner is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series (movies by Fox/Disney), including The Maze Runner, The Scorch Trials, The Death Cure, The Kill Order, and The Fever Code, and the bestselling Mortality Doctrine series (The Eye of Minds, The Rule of Thoughts, and The Game of Lives). Dashner was born and raised in Georgia, but now lives and writes in the Rocky Mountains.
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