All three are then stranded in the Maze overnight. Alby is stung by the creature, and while Minho is trying to help him out of the Maze, Thomas runs in to help, just as the doors shut. Minho, the Keeper of the Runners, goes into the Maze with Alby to see what they think is their first dead Griever. Teresa then wakes up and tells Thomas that they knew each other before they were sent into the Glade, revealing their ability to communicate telepathically. When Thomas comes to visit her, he recognizes her but cannot remember her name until he hears her voice in his mind, telling him her name. Ever.' The girl later lapses into a long coma. She had a note saying 'She's the last one. She was the first ever girl to arrive into the Glade. One day after Thomas's arrival, a girl, Teresa, is delivered through the elevator into the Glade. The Gladers are trying to stay alive as well as 'solve' the Maze by appointing 'runners' to run through it as fast as they can while they track movements of the walls and try to find an exit to escape.

The Maze houses strange, lethal creatures known as Grievers. Outside the walls is the Maze, a labyrinth of high concrete walls covered in ivy that changes every day. The walls have openings in them, which slide shut like doors every night. The Glade is surrounded by a square of four-mile-high walls made of concrete. Every month, a new boy with no memory of anything but his first name finds himself in that elevator box. The elevator box surfaces from under the ground once every month and supplies new food, tools, medicine, and sometimes weapons. He gradually discovers that the Glade is run by two boys: Alby, the leader, and Newt, the second-in-charge, who both maintain order by enforcing simple but effective rules. He has no memory of who he is or how he got there.

Thomas wakes up in a metal elevator that brings him to the Glade.

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