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Users Who added to favorites. Do you want to read a book that interests you? A physical glow. Almost floating. The world seemed to fade away. All became numb and sweet. And the darkness, somehow comforting. He slipped into a dream. He's very young. Four, maybe? Lying in a bed with blankets pulled to his chin. A woman sits next to him, her hands folded in her lap. She has long brown hair, a face just beginning to show signs of age.
Her eyes are sad. He knows this even though she's trying very hard to hide it with a smile. He wants to say something, ask her a question. But he can't. He's not really here.
Just witnessing it all from a place he doesn't quite understand. She begins to talk, a sound so simultaneously sweet and angry it disturbs him. You're special somehow. Never forget that. Even though it is him. None of it makes sense. No, he can't call her that. This is his mother. Too fast the dream faded into blackness, leaving Thomas in a void with nothing but his thoughts.
Had he seen another memory crawl up from the depths of his amnesia? Had he really seen his mom? There'd been something about his dad being crazy. The ache inside Thomas was deep and gnawing, and he tried to sink further into oblivion. Tom, something's wrong. He heard Teresa say those three words, but it seemed from far away, as if spoken down a long and cluttered tunnel.
His slumber had become a viscous liquid, thick and sticky, trapping him. He became aware of himself, but realized he was removed from the world, entombed by exhaustion. He couldn't wake up. She screamed it. A piercing rattle in his head. He felt the first trickle of fear, but it was more like a dream. He could only sleep. And they were safe now, nothing to worry about anymore. Yeah, it had to be a dream. Teresa was fine, they were all fine.
He relaxed again, let himself drown in slumber. Other sounds snuck their way into his consciousness. The clang of metal against metal. Something shattering. Boys shouting. More like the echo of shouts, very distant, muted. Suddenly they became more like screams. Unearthly cries of anguish. But still distant.
As if he'd been wrapped in a thick cocoon of dark velvet. Finally something pricked the comfort of sleep. This wasn't right. Teresa had called for him, told him something was wrong! He fought the deep sleep that had consumed him, clawed at the heavy weight pinning him down.
Wake up! Then something disappeared from inside him. There one instant, gone the next. He felt as if a major organ had just been ripped from his body. It had been her. She was gone. Are you there? But there was nothing, and he no longer felt that comforting sense of her closeness. He called her name again, then again, as he continued to struggle against the dark pull of sleep.
Finally, reality swept in, washed away the darkness. Engulfed in terror, Thomas opened his eyes and shot to a sitting position on his bed, scooted out until he got his feet under him and jumped up.
Looked around. Everything had gone crazy. The other Gladers in the room were running around, shouting. And terrible, horrible, awful sounds filled the air, like the wretched squeals of animals being tortured. There was Frypan, pointing out a window, his face pale. Newt and Minho were running to the door. Others stumbling over each other to look out the different windows, but keeping their distance from the glass. Achingly, Thomas realized he didn't even know most of the names of the twenty boys who'd survived the Maze, an odd thought to have in the middle of all that chaos.
Something at the corner of his eye made him turn to look toward the wall. What he saw immediately wiped away any peace and safety he'd felt talking to Teresa in the night. Made him doubt such emotions could even exist in the same world in which he now stood.
Three feet from his bed, draped by colorful curtains, a window looked out into a bright, blinding light. The glass was broken, jagged shards leaning against crisscrossed steel bars. A man stood on the other side, gripping the bars with bloody hands. His eyes were wide and bloodshot, filled with madness. He had no hair, only diseased splotches of what looked like greenish moss. A vicious slit stretched across his right cheek; Thomas could see teeth through the raw, festering wound.
Pink saliva dribbled in swaying lines from the man's chin. Kill me! His voice had a gloom to it that perfectly matched how Thomas felt. It seemed as if everything they'd dared hope for the previous night had dissolved to nothing. Thomas had lived in fear and terror the past few weeks, but this was almost too much. To feel safe only to have that snatched away again. Shocking even himself, though, he quickly set aside that small part of him that wanted to jump back into his bed and bawl his eyes out.
He pushed away the lingering ache of remembering his mom and the stuff about his dad and people going crazy.
It was too dark to notice them last night, especially with those stupid frilly curtains. But I'm sure glad for 'em. Everyone had a look of half disbelief, half terror. Bunch of crazies want to eat us for breakfast, by the looks of it.
We need to find another room, have a Gathering. All this noise is driving nails through my buggin' skull. And that vision of his mom His two friends moved away, calling out and waving their arms to collect Gladers. Thomas took a tremulous glance back at the shredded madman at the window, then looked away immediately, wishing he hadn't reminded his brain of the blood and torn flesh, the insane eyes, the hysterical screaming.
Thomas stumbled to the farthest wall, leaned heavily against it. Teresa, he called out again with his mind.
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