Whenever he dreams, the dreams are all very linear: they start at the day the sun-flares hit until the day that he escapes New York by boat. (Cause why not, right?)īy the way, let's take a break and talk about Mark. She tells them that her name is Deedee, and they decide to bring her with them. There, they find a little five-year-old girl who has a dart wound on her arm, but she's not sick. They start exploring the woods and come across another settlement. We're down to Mark, Alec, Trina, and Lana. Alec, being a grizzled war vet, takes the Toad out to the woods and kills him (we don't know how)-they can't have anyone with the virus following them.

He tells them he took care of Misty until she died, and now his head hurts. And as you can imagine, the Toad's now sick too. As Mark is about to fall asleep, he sees the Toad in the woods. Oh well: Trina, Lana, Alec, and Mark keep going.Ībout a few miles into the woods, the group stops to get some rest. She's pretty much a goner too at this point, and the Toad refuses to keep going without her. On their way, though, Misty starts feeling sick. The remaining friends decide to flee the village. Whatever was in those darts is poisonous, and it's spreading. Then he-gulp-whacks his head on the wall until he dies. He's screaming about something hurting in his head. Oh, and Darnell is locked up in a cage going nutso. But when they trek back to the settlement, they find people dead everywhere. Alec and Mark break down some doors and generally cause mayhem, and pretty soon the Berg crashes.ĭon't worry: Alec and Mark are fine. Mark follows suit with another grappling hook, and pretty soon the two are walking around in the Berg trying to figure out what's going on. Phew.Īmid the shooting, Alec takes out a grappling hook (from who knows where) and shoots it onto the Berg. People drop like flies (including Darnell), but Alec, Mark, Trina, Lana, Misty, and the Toad escape.

It's super-rare for a Berg to show up, and the people who come out of the Berg shoot up the village with darts. The conflict begins when a Berg shows up at the settlement-that's right, a Berg (a giant airship that WICKED uses back in Book Two and Book Three of the series-it's basically a plane, but with more rooms). They're all survivors of the sun-flares, and they're living together in a village somewhere. There's Mark, Trina, Alec, Lana, Misty, the Toad, and Darnell. So we have a bunch of new characters to get to know. Right from the beginning, we're told that the story takes place thirteen years earlier than the Maze. Let's take a step back: before Thomas, there was Mark.

Kill Order by Tate James