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CHAPTER 6 THE HISTORY LESSON 1 The
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3 A half hour later, still buzzing
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significant damage from day one, bu
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As she did this, the circle of ligh
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7 Helga’s space-age entertainment
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CHAPTER 7 FRIED CHICKEN 1 Kaine app
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2 After they Lifted out of the Coff
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They all bounced half a foot off th
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A car was passing him in the parkin
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CHAPTER 8 SEARCH AND RESCUE 1 Gabby
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Michael let out a sigh. “Fine, it
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4 A minute passed. Two. Michael sto
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happens to be one of the ways in an
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Kaine is…some villain, then that
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CHAPTER 9 UP IN THE NIGHT 1 How cou
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4 Helga let him go, which really su
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hadn’t. Surely the folks in this
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telling them? I gotta be honest, I
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done ever trusting anyone one hundr
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“So far, perfect,” answered Hel
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his chest. He searched the room for
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The man continued. “We have promi
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Michael and Bryson had chanced fate
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head and he fell backward, disappea
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another man in the crook of his arm
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Once again, the auditorium erupted
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luck, then stepped into the pod, lo
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easier for him to hack into the cod
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4 Time passed. Michael sat in the c
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Kaine didn’t say a word, but his
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please sit in the chairs at the tab
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Everything around them disappeared,
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He floated above a home—a modest
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eplenishing the human race, where n
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figures with black cloaks draped fr
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“You are…the First.” The word
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several of the creatures with what
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The same people—and I use the wor
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“At least I recognized it. But wh
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“I’ll message you what you need
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the rogue Tangents he’d been prov
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into its goop of code unless he was
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composure. “I didn’t come here
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her wish—she now had armies at he
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this. Great things are going to hap
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“For a plan like this, we needed
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the glass for turning them off and
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“Yeah, except you ripped out the
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“I’m going to take care of Webe
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least not this way, this quickly. H
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Then, finally, relief. The pressure
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Time had to be running out. Michael
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panic he reached up and pulled at i
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Surely you can’t be serious. I am
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CHAPTER 21 THE MORTALITY DOCTRINE 1
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light went on in his mind: no matte
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programmed with superior code—it
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He had been right. The Mortality Do
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CHAPTER 22 GODS AND MONSTERS 1 Helg
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establish another connection to rep
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they were all about to be pummeled.
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Run, he thought. He was done fighti
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him run across the room and through
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“Oh, we’ve met,” Michael said
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She nodded, and he felt a sudden dr
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That was some major food for though
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hadn’t been thrown in jail. Gathe
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR James Dashner was
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CHAPTER 1 He began his new life sta
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chorus of voices had grown silent,