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The Scorch Trials is the second book—preceded by the 2009 novel, The Maze Runner—in a young-adult dystopian science fiction trilogy by James Dashner. The novel was published October 5, 2010 by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House. The series is currently being shopped as a possible film project.
The book starts in the middle of the night where Thomas wakes up and can't get back to sleep. He calls Teresa's name telepathically. After a while, Thomas finally falls asleep, having a dream about his past and his mom. Teresa calls out to him telepathically, but can't seem to get Thomas's attention. He wakes up to seeing everyone panicking about Cranks, which are people infected with the Flare, outside their door. Thomas and the rest of the Gladers go around to investigate, finding that the room where they'd eaten pizza with the people who rescued them was locked. They ram the door down and turn on the lights to find the rescuers dead bodies hanging from the ceiling. They enter Teresa's room, which is empty, except for a boy that just came out of the bathroom named Aris, who's from Group B. He can also talk telepathically, and even had a telepathy partner named Rachel, but she was killed just like Gally had killed Chuck in the first book. Outside of the room is a plaque that says "Teresa Agnes. Group A, Subject A1. The Betrayer." An alarm, similar to the one on the Glade, goes off, and the room door locks until the alarm stops. Thomas opens the door to find no dead bodies. Even the plaque is changed to "Aris Jones, Group B, Subject B1. The Partner."
It wasn't gravity, it was the witches.
Make your fingers into pillars
Hold all the stomachs in this town,
They can't stomach anymore.
The wood on these trees smell like skin now
And old fires are full of carpenter stories,
Where they push plastic nails through their smiles.
It wasn't gravity, it was the witches.