Blog # 10

Higgin

The Puzzle of Life

Teresa and Thomas are running towards the griever hole while people around are still fighting and protecting them. Thomas finds Chuck, Newt, and Alby then motions them to follow. The group of five remained together weaving their way through the struggling Glader’s fighting for their lives. Occasionally there would be a scream of someone who was close to death and had given up on him/herself. Every time this would happen Thomas flinched and reached out to Teresa in his mind for someone to talk to yet not out loud where people would be offended. She would try and comfort him for small seconds but was more focused on surviving and getting into the grievers hole to end what they had started. As they were approaching the cliff a group of about ten grievers stopped in front of them. They all had weapons and were ready to fight when suddenly tons of Glader’s came out of what seemed to be nowhere and ambushed them. The Grievers didn’t react at all then just were standing there as if they didn’t know what to do. One by one they were slain. After the path was clear Alby, Newt, Teresa, Thomas, and Chuck started jumping into the hole.
                When they dropped into the griever hole there was little light besides the flashlights they had. There was a distant glowing object in front of them. They were all wading in some kind of liquid. Thomas’s first thought was that they were in the Grievers waste area. Then he realized by the feel and the easiness of him wading through it was only water. The room they had dropped into smelled like rotten mold. Chuck almost passed out from the smell but got somewhat used to it after a little while. After they had rested on the rocky shore to the water for only a minute, which seemed like hours, they started jogging towards the glowing object. It wasn’t long before all of them were there. There was a computer that had a blank page on it. Teresa thought to Thomas “Let’s put the code in quickly!” Thomas knew it had to be done. Thomas asked Chuck, Alby, and Newt to watch him and Teresa’s backs while they typed the code in. They put the words in FLOAT, CATCH, BLEED, DEATH, and STIFF. After Thomas enters those words he tries the last word PUSH. The computer doesn’t let another word go in but something in the wall starts to shift. There is a space in the wall that comes out. Alby yells “Everyone into the hole.” They all follow thinking the same thing. When they enter the room they see Gally lying on the floor.

Before they try anything with Gally they examine what kind of room they are in as the door shuts behind them. From what they can tell there are 6 little rooms coming out of this one room. Each one has a different word on it.  Thomas goes to one of the doors, and then suddenly Gally sits up quickly and looks at Thomas. “You!” Gally exclaimed! “It was you!” Then he lunged at Thomas with a knife that was in his hand. Lucky for Thomas he had a weapon that he used for the fight above so he fended Gally off with it. After struggling for a few seconds Thomas got the upper hand he deflected one of the stabs Gally threw then smacked the knife out of his hand. Then Thomas pinned him on the wall before he could dive to get it. Thomas said “What have they done to you?”

Gally responded “I survived the night and found this place and have been living here running over the memories I got from the changing. Then it hit me, the reason we are all in trouble is because of you and this girl. You were one of the creators of the maze and are just trying to gain trust to turn on us once we escape!”

                Everyone was not sure who to believe anymore. They knew that Gally could have been changed since he was in this place but they also knew he went through the Changing. Alby spoke out and said “Gally you are crazy Thomas would die for any of us just as Teresa.” He then looked at each of them and they each nodded. “Get him locked in one of these doors but check it out before locking him in.” Soon after Newt and Thomas went in the room and came out with a letter. It was an F. The door had the word Stiff on it. The other doors around the room had words from the code as well. This couldn’t have been a coincidence.  The other letters that were found were S-E-T-E-L. This was another clue for another puzzle.