How It All Goes Down
- Thomas and Minho get back mid-morning to find that the Glade is functioning as close to normally as possible.
- Newt rushes to greet them with childlike excitement that they might've found something, but he gets his hopes dashed when they report that nothing has changed.
- Their suspicions were correct: the Grievers had attacked during the night and had taken one boy.
- Minho loses hope and freaks out, and Thomas checks on the Map decoders and finds they've completed their task.
- The code consists of six words: FLOAT, CATCH, BLEED, DEATH, STIFF, PUSH. Well, that hardly makes any sense.
- Apparently the Maze has been repeating those words for months, and they know FLOAT is the first one because after PUSH the Maze wouldn't show any letters for a week before starting over.
- Thomas is frustrated by the indecipherable message, and then a horrible idea strikes him. He has a terrible plan: he's going to get stung by a Griever so that he can go through the Changing and get his memories back. On purpose.