Run.
Keep running and never stop.
That's all I ever thought about.
Darting past the doors, my small feet dropped onto the grass. The safe place was what I called it. Only arriving weeks ago I already identified the patterns of the so-called maze. The ground shook as the gates gradually yet quickly sealed shut for the remainder of the night and would reopen in due time the following day.
Surviving in the Glade was a lot more difficult than it sounded considering that I was alone. Praying for company was a daily routine, not knowing if this was going my new life or just the beginning. Finding out my name and almost immediately forgetting it wasn't helping the situation in any way.
Thinking it was another ordinary day I did my usual routine: bathe, dress, gather food in the gardens, eat, run the maze, eat dinner, and sleep. Every day, I repeated the mini cycle.
Sprinting back into the maze after a refreshing shower and tidying up my tiny hut near the woods a loud siren was wailing, echoing, and bouncing off the vine-covered walls.
'What was that?' I thought, pumping her legs faster towards the Glade. The box where I had came up from had arrived again.
'What? Why is it up again?' Reaching the metal cage I found the gates were opened wide. Peering in the crate my eyes connected with another pair, clear blue as the sky above us. It was a boy.
"Who are you? Where am I?" The dark-skinned boy breathed out sounding terrified avoiding the stare of my green eyes.
"I'm... ah... Cat." The word flew out of my mouth not knowing if it was true or not.
"Cat?" He asked confused, "As in the animal?"
"S-sure." I held out my hand for him to grasp, he hesitantly took it, shaking it.
"Everything's going to be okay. I'm right here for-" Loud screeching cut me off. A greenie monster was crawling steadily to the box. The closer it got the louder the screeching became. Without thinking I pushed the boy back in the box and shut the doors.
"I need you to listen to me. Don't ever go through those doors to find me. Ever. Especially at night. Please live and be safe. Those greenie monsters will try to kill you." Those words were harsh but true. I sprinted across the Glade for the last time in forever and into the maze guiding it along with me.