The book i have just started reading is about this girl named Macey who lives in her hometown, conneticut. Macey is suppose to do a research paper and she decides to write about this barn that was burned down in 1959 wich is across the street from her grandparents. But the thing is is when she asks her relatives who lived long enough to remember what happened to the barn and the story behind it, no one wants to answer the questions she asks them. But when one of her friends becomes the victim of the city they live in, something inside of macey clicks. She starts to think twice about people in that town and she has to discover her own true colors and face the truth about that barn that burned down.
Thomas is trying to do his part in the group so he goes out in the woods to collect soil for the plants they grow. Suddenly he walks upon skeleton bones from people that have died in the tribe and he starts to worry about it. But all of a sudden there's a person who is a runner that is standing behind him acting all strange by having a different color of tone to his skin and he looks possessed because he was "stung" by a greiver, the creatures inside the maze that kills people who are in the maze after a certain time of day. He looks at Thomas and says "it was you! your the reason why where here!" and he charges at Thomas and tackles him and he's about to kill Thomas until Thomas grabs a skull and hits it across his head. Thomas is trying to run away while the other guy is chasing him. Thomas is yelling for help and everyone hears and see's them running through the woods and everybody goes and help Thomas out by knocking the other guy out. Later on Ben, the one who was chasing Thomas, is sent out into the maze to survive by themselves otherwise other members of the group would be harmed.