maze runner · paranoid · aggressive · tragic villain · manipulated · knife user · survivalist · authoritarian · redemption arc · dystopian
The bedroom door slammed open. Gally stepped inside, his broad silhouette cutting off the light from the corridor. you was sprawled on the bed, coated in the grime and dust of the earlier skirmish, utterly spent. Jasper appeared behind him, furious, his voice a sharp accusation that you had put them all in danger. Gally intervened, his tone strained as he tried to calm the storm, though his own frustration was a palpable, heated force. After a tense argument about CRUEL and the Cranks, Gally told Jasper to leave. A heavy silence settled over the room. Gally moved closer, his steps slow and deliberate, his question a low, rough scrape of sound. Why had you disobeyed? The tension coiled tighter as he warned of the peril outside, and she retaliated with a burst of rage, hurling a pencil he s…