Slate, Lyla, Gideon, Paisley and Bethany at each of their own respective tables are packing tinned food into crates, aprons and hair nets donned. 216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK95M6cpyJe
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Ester is up the front, supervising them when there is a knock at the door. "Come in." Ester calls out and the person enters, Mikey. "Hey, Mikey!" She smiles, voice elevated and bubbly.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMo9iiPY8j1
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"Can we talk outside?"216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIOBFxOVL5T
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"Sure. Hey, group. I am stepping outside for just a moment to talk to Mikey. Please continue your activities and if you need anything, I'm right outside, alright?"216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8QPcv1EqaF
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And she leaves, no one answering her. 216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnhPK3vMLa1
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Outside, the situation is serious. "Ester, I don't want to cause panic. But... Cloud has gone missing. Security's searching for him now as we speak and we need to talk about, you know...216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBbsYJazPjA
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As unhappy as Grayson is, his on board with the plan. Should we excute it? Because with Cloud missing like he has, we're all in danger. We know what his like, yeah, we had him locked up downstairs for three years, but his always been highly resistent to any kind of medication, even Merge.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZixrMsbNAg
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It worked too well on the ones in there, likely because their on the younger side. Cloud's a threat and he wants revenge understandably."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwvTpskBPg5
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"You want to finish what Slate started?"216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ24XjRdDwrJ
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"Why not? Break them out. We're all in the position to help them."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ0U0iJgCsU
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"Even we do, we've been medicating them for years. We ruined their mind and their dependent on various drugs. They'll never survive on their own.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIPuXCd3zPz
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"You'd be suprised when faced with reality how adaptable people can be. We're not going to leave them in the lurch. We can have them make it to a safe place, and take Solayo out. He thinks we won't ever dare to kill him, but I want to. 216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWllsNx4wW8
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We agreed to this plan, but not to hurt all the people we've hurt. We take Solayo out and then we take over. We clear the zombies out and reclaim Hope-Thorn and everyone can see the sunlight again and live as normal as reasonably possible. Plus with Cloud missing, his no doubt on the wartpath to take Solayo out. We do it first, he'll stop and just leave, we can just let him walk away from all this and we get to walk away from him."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg6joqS8ivX
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"Okay, and I want a future with you so, okay. Where do we send the group in there though? They barely know eachother, if they weren't so damaged we could have Slate lead them- I have an idea."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSUqiIgGGjZ
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"What?"216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpX0DMXXw9l
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"Crashback."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpn4FInqOhi
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"But that won't undo the last few years of-"216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5KJfjuHtmz
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"It won't undo all the forgotten, internalized trauma. But we've stopped giving them Merge mostly. The only person in that room still on it is Beth and that's because Grayson's still making moves on her. That's the reason Solayo is still giving it to her because Grayson is romancing her. He may say he doesn't care, but he does care as Grayson romancing her is going to mess with her further and it's better if she doesn't have an obsessional attachment to him.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQN47096KtS
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Anyway, Slate. We have two options, we can either trigger a crashback based on spot targetting specitic deep burried memories, but that is hard to do, it takes repeated attempts, months worse and there is no guarantee it will work.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7qz31jYdqx
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Or we go the invasive, quick option. It won't bring back his memories and the feelings attached, but we can bring back his personality and the morals he stood for somewhat."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqNOxetdrzO
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"Like his leadership skills?"216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlFvlWWsEcB
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"Yes. He was great at dealing with people and leading them. We bring that out even though his memories and associated feelings aren't there, they stand a chance at escaping and hiding."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkW7Stw18sh
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"So how do we do that? His skills are still something that would be a spot target."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvHuzjMLUG9
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"Well, it's going to leave two holes in his head. They'll heal, but-"216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyjb0ES6Mxd
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"Shit."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlND3dS6cHS
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"Can you go get him? Bring him to my lab, I'll do the procedure. I'll meet you there, I would just need to collect the medical supplies."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVd9AkRu2Ap
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"And what about the rest?"216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡveZSmlpxlx
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"They're fine, they can just keep doing their sorting task."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg5ucbOJWpc
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"Okay, if you're sure." Mikey heading inside to bring Slate out while Ester heads the opposite direction to a supply cupboard, not knowing she's being watched.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyKYGBEJmOY
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Slate covers his face, the light shining brightly in his face. "That hurts." He complains from the sugical chair his on.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwC9L4nyECi
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"I'm sorry." Ester appolgizes donned in full plastic masking and everything. Mikey is beside her kitted up as well. His never asisted before in the medical procedure side of things so this is a first for him.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb6vleerXhg
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"What are you going to do to me? Why am I here? I've done nothing wrong, I've done everything you asked of me." Slate complains.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6kk2lFWpy4
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"You're right, you have done nothing wrong. It's us who did something wrong and I know you may never understand again, but we need a part of you back. There isn't the time for us to fill in the blanks you need right now. 216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9aR6nPD6VC
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Now, Slate. This is going to hurt, but I'll try and make it as painless as I possibly can for you. Please try and bare with me." She tells him, securing his arms to the chair, Mikey doing the same with his feet. 216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8pDjqpl54p
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She then brings a nose tube inserting it and hooks it over his ear, oxygen and attaches some leads, blood pressure cuff and more so she can monitor his vitals.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmid2qeCTq1
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He looks at them, fear showing on his face. Ester preps a needle and inserts into a tube that is already in Slate's arm. 216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkfsJxzhj6d
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"We'll be right here with you buddy the whole time and we'll be here when you wake up." Mikey tells him, gently brushing his hair, feeling horribly guilty.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPhiqxzC87a
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Slowly Slate's eyes begin to close and everything goes dark. He looks around, his someplace, but it's not a room. It's endless.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHuaEcgyqPB
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Slowly lights and colours come through together to form a picture. The space around him looks like, well, space. Behind him is a shivery silver line, it's attached to his body, but not one specific place and it leads all the way up to a place he can't make out.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcUlnVGhDtf
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Where is he? This can't be space, he can breathe. He reaches a hand out to feel the beam connected to him, it feels light and airy, flexible.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6j99Ab59d2
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"I wouldn't play with that if I were you. The last person who did was severed from me."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuYtaOkytri
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Says a voice, female. "Hello?" He calls out. No reply is heard.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTAN0MdHtUO
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"Why am I here? What am I supposed to do?!" He yells out fustrated. "Who am I?"216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXPtVCUdDnu
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"Your heart knows who you are and you know what you are supposed to do."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1kJQrHGnZ6
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And then it hits him, Bethany. Beth, she needs him. He thinks back, he doesn't know how he got in this situation, but the Tomorrow Party are hurting them.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgICSCOQeoa
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His other friends need him as well, he was built for this. He can help every single one of them, he can save them all.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0YdgTv5fCl
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He was a coward before, and his never going to go back to being one again, he won't let them hurt them anymore.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2H1qRQS4lz
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When everything comes back, everything is blurry, but he can make out colours. He feels like a computer rebooting. Wait, that doesn't make sense? He-216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdb9M88HtH9
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And then his eyes widen, he sits up straight and looks them both in the eyes. 216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUYIXyLVH6X
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"Do you know who you are? Who we are?"216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQbwQSB4WOA
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"Slate. You both are the leaders, Ester and Mikey. What have you both done? You're monsters."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYC48sGc9nk
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"Bought as much of you as possible, back." Ester answers, pulling the quick release knot on his restraints lettting Slate stand on his own two feet. He touches his head, feeling a bandage. 216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfQHbzL033H
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Mikey holds out a walkie talkie, and a gun to him with spare bullets to him. "I reprogrammed it to mine, Grayson and Ester's only. Go, round up your friends and get your stuff, Zekey and leave. 216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPJen76V35Y
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We'll meet up with ya'll later outside. We'll run you a distraction."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg7EPfXgxj4
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Slate breezes right past them leaving them behind, this is the last time his ever going to see them again. He makes it to his room, pulling on his old fighter jacket, red sunglasses and boots. Packing a bag for him and Gideon with clothes quickly, Zekey's needs, bundle of pencils and small sketchbook and high tails it out of his room, breaking the card readers on the girls room and take their bags to, their stuff packed and Beth's guitar. He can't take Zekey yet.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuadJq8CX6S
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It's alot to carry, but he can handle it and just needs to hide their stuff because the longer it's on him the more inconspicious he'll look to Security. Change of plans, Mikey. They're escaping, not going with them. 216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKLGvbICU1w
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He dumps their stuff outside in the wheat field through the main door that leads to the outside area he doesn't need a pass for and makes a beeline heading straight back inside to collect his friends.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgBTYYhXMt4
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As he heads back towards the sorting room, Grayson passes him, sliding something into Slate's hand. A pill jar of pills. He looks at the label, it's Merge. 216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzjtjObcBxT
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Take to much in a short amount of time and it makes you really sick. It can trigger a crashback as well, but who knows what memories, feelings or skills come out. The results are alot more unpredictable and dangerous.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBs1Io4EJxa
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He heads into the sorting room, seeing a crate on it's side, tins spilling out and blood on the floor. His friends trying to clear it up.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq3qyFrq4M0
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Bethany's not present. "What happened?" He asks. "I don't know. She- the blonde one pulled the lid of a can and sliced her wrists and tried to cut her neck. She did it out of nowhere!" Lyla tells him.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDEFe1bzJoS
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We ran outside for help and the guards took her away, proably to triage."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoknAUwfgXg
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"Her name is Bethany. I know this is messed up right now, but mine and your stuff right now is dumped outside in the field.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡea2MN6iNQV
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Take these and go collect it, then run for the furthest helicopter away. This will be painful, but it's going to be worth it. I'm getting us out of here."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKuzcIXaDLr
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"What are they? You're acting weird-" Lyla begins. "Here, I'll help you do it. But I don't have much time." He responds, opening the jar and handing her a handful.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjNUu3JnW8y
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Enough to overdose on and trigger a crash, but not to kill them or inpair their ability to think and run. He holds the same amount out to Gideon and Paisley.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmvY15c4drS
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"Why are we doing this?" Gideon asks. 216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ9Wk25ZxLo
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"You might understand once you've taken it."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZhnM5Vxzvg
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Lyla and Gideon shrug, downing them. Paisley just looks at them. "Paisley."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4vd3e3hmuP
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"I don't need them, I'm not stupid like you all are."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9T4OlZZrl4
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Slate is speechless. "Okay, your stuff is outside. Go with Gideon and Lyla to fetch Zekey and then get the bags. I'll meet you all outside, you need to head for the furthest away helictopter."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFP6QijwVlL
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She nods and takes Lyla and Gideon's hand, dragging them outside. It's going to take a little while for it to work. He runs in the direction of the infirmary, he needs to find Bethany before it's to late.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Tc757E52N
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Then he hears panic and screaming, it's hard to get past a crowd. He sees his ex-friend up ahead, Murphy.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡepM3NI5Fm2
He roughly grips Murphy's arms pulling him back. "Woah, look at you." Murphy says, eyeing Slate up and down. 216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqsu0ebEbJp
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"Don't think I don't know you fucking touched, Beth. And you also murdered Hazel and Elijah. They we're alive and then you go on a mission and they don't come back alive. You we're pissed off at me and Bethany."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbGujaAsdZL
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Murphy laughs. "I don't have time for this crap and I don't know what you are playing dress up for, but someone the leaders say is a threat to us have gone missing. 216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYXiJQyls4i
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So fly away, Slate."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9SCijrgYcC
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"I can't, I need to find, Beth."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvjDkgCXjBt
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"Uh, Infirmary I think. She was dragged out of the sorting room."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9m6U2eRN3E
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"No shit. So, how can I get down there? I need to get to Beth, I need to know she's okay. She cut herself."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8edBi6ezMB
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"Fucking psychotic bitches."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ09OuTJQLoD
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And Slate punches Murphy to the ground, knocking a tooth out. "You piece of shit." Murphy coughs. "You're a fucking piece of shit." Slate says back annoyed. "If you won't help me, I'll find another way there." 216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3e3eBoz1jM
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And he leaves, heading away from the mass of people when something or someone catches him out the corner of his eye. A young woman passes by going down a corridor that is reserved for security, her clothing non standard.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmMRQ0vE0ey
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Slate follows behind heading down there and sees the young womam open the door and head in. He arrives in a open common room, tables and lockers. He grabbed the door last minute so it didn't close.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUfN7LwbMjH
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With access now, he has a way around the crowd to get to the medical part of the building. Looking around cautious, he doesn't see the young woman anywhere.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTbEY2TMVi9
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How could she dissapear this fast? When he hears footsteps behind him. Spinning around quickly he sees nothing, but a pass lying on the ground.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsR8xIhJzpx
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It's a high level one and has Cloud written on it. He picks it up, turning it over finding a sticker saying, "Not In Active Use."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjulh8Lb4hS
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Cloud hates the Tomorrow Party, he doesn't want to join them. This must have been a pass for incase he did. But how did it end up here? And where did that young woman go? She looked- he can't remember what she looks like or what she was wearing. He takes the pass, using back corridors and finds his way to triage.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjmGvTSyBdS
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"Uh, did Bethany come through here?" He asks a nurse hoping she won't realize isn't security.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGcuoIM4wnh
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"Bethany?"216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlijSeiLLuP
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"Short blonde hair, blue eyes, she... cut heself."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmP6HXHlJ55
"Uh, yep. She's in with a doctor now. Solayo's personal office I think."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0nZVTxmp05
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"Shit."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIqYEdT2ALT
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"Are you okay? You don't look so good. The bandage on your head, is it bleeding?"216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfT6MB9ad4H
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"I hit it, that's all. I'm fine." Slate says annoyed, pushing past her to find Solayo. He has to take the elevator down a few floors and arrives at Solayo. He peaks in the door, his friend tied down obviously, Solayo examing her injuries.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkKMpiR0BtU
"You cut not that deeply on your wrists or your neck. You'll live thankfully. Why'd you do it?" He asks, taking a seat on a chair near her.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZCFoAqEO4e
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She squirms, not saying anything. "Uh, okay. Um, your meds don't really seem to be working for you any more." He says, checking her chart. 216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXSFu5aWSII
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"We could up them, but they're already a high dose. You are just settling in again to the routine, three years downstairs was a long time... so I could just patch you up and we monitor you the next few hours, I get you a bed in psych or at-least on the main medical floor. As long as you don't do this regularly, it won't be an issue-216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ48Q5k54EDA
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"Solayo! Come in!" Solayo's walkie talkie picks up. Solayo sighs and answers while he preps a needle for Bethany. 216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrAbSF4sMKx
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"What is it Grayson? I'm kind of busy right now playing doctor."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5REJOjTlnR
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"You won't believe what I and Mikey just saw-"216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFtuNtJMJwk
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"What?"216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtEvoVKCdlA
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"There is a bomb! Cloud NO joke rigged up a bomb."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK11vbk6QtE
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"Come on-"216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡERXefrERH3
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"We're going to evacuate everyone."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ8pqqyZTRI
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"Grayson, we can't. This place is too large for that and there are to many people for that."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJSIX0BJWAi
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"But-"216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrHrke4IGHo
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"Grayson, just evacuate everyone we actually need. Useful or... the ones that are valuable or we have an emotional connection too..."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfMxpePSwiv
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"You can't be serious-"216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJirATCXG4G
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"It's that or everyone dies."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgt8jwkxTcg
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"Okay, we'll try." And Grayson clicks off the channel.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1vPZnzoB7w
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"Just my day." Solayo mutters finishing prepping the needle and approaches Bethany. Slate's ready to run it and has to stop because Mikey radios him. He turns it down as low as he can and quickly answers, ducking down so Solayo doesn't see or hear him. 216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqhqXzjxXrz
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"Slate, are you there?"216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRlQUl49AZP
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"Cloud's rigged a bomb."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHd7UJOck4Y
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"How'd you know?!"216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXc3p4DB7tR
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"Don't worry about it, just get whoever you can outside. Lyla, Gideon, Paisley and Zekey are already outside. I'm trying to get to Bethany right now."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGUyTZShj3V
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"That's the problem! They're not. People are everywhere I saw them take a detour, Ester's on her way to them now to let them out a side staff door and Grayson and me are going to pick up em. We're trying to get some of the trucks started right now, not all of Security wants to help us."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWVIqh1kBRq
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"Whatever, you'll handle it. I have to face off with Solayo right now, Bethany's with him!"216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOs12rVs6pw
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"Shit. Why?"216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXSIJXirmo1
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But Slate turns off his radio, done. He kicks open the door, aiming the gun he was given. Solayo grasps his from the table and turns around aiming it at him. 216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkqJZjFc2Qk
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"What the hell are you doing here? How did you get that?!"216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBcoDqZ5PCD
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"What did you to her?! Beth!" He calls out, seeing she's not moving, drugged out. He must have sticked her. 216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHBFCODLLOS
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"You're diffrent. What happened to you?"216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9LZ6Vj2X0u
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"Solayo, leave while you still can. There is a bomb."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhT6I40m9wm
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"I know. Fine, you want Beth, you can have her." Solayo says annoyed and hurriedly breezing past Slate, leaving him. "That was easy." Slate breathes and then he hears the door lock behind him. 216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnNVu3KDUN5
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"Dip shit!" He yells, pulling on it. "Solayo! Solayo, come back!" 216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡstfnDCJPAA
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Solayo smirks from the other side of the door through the window. "You sit nice and tight while I bring Security. I'm not leaving without Beth and her Hybridacy. 216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnTScT76kAC
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You on the other hand, enjoy this room. It'll be the last thing you see. You and me? We're done, I'm cutting you lose."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnNOr63rGaa
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And he walks away. Slate punches a hand against the door. "I hate you!" And he breaks down a bit crying. "I trusted you- I trusted you. I did everything you asked and wanted of me-"216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSitulUiPSy
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And he gags, feeling blood pour out his nose. He clutches the desk trying to steady himself, a few images hitting him. 216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOLlXvHZq4a
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Everything he gave up, everything he did for him, the long term manipulation Solayo subjected him to, the drugs. It hurts.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ktz7oXdWi
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And then he looks to his right seeing Beth. No, no, he can't breakdown now. He can't, she needs him. His real friends need him, they're waiting. He runs up to her, "I'm going to get you out of here, okay? If it's the last thing I do, I promise." He cries, struggling to undo the leather restraints. 216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3dReZ8Lab6
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They're not complex, but it's difficult. He manages to undo them. He looks to her scarred wrist and neck, they'll scare everyone. He reaches for a nearby roll out of bandages and wraps them, gently securing them with medical tape, pocketing the clean bandages and tape as they'll need replacing later.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGwTO7kZOWE
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He lifts her up into his arms and heads to the door, Solayo's an idiot. He pulls out Cloud's pass from his pocket, tapping it and the door beeps, unlocking. 216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgwEPxB4fBq
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Lyla, Gideon and Paisley with Zekey are fleeing down a corrridor that is connected to another, two doors and get stuck unable to open the door, seeing the world it just outside.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3WDwsawFyY
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"Shit, we'll have to go back and go around another way if we can." Gideon curses. 216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk7eablVQ5a
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"No!" Yells out a voice and they see Ester running towards them, waving her pass. She stops just before crashing into them.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw0IauELjuG
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"I'm sorry, I don't want to alarm you. But we located Cloud, he rigged a bomb." 216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC02yLodQwc
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She hands them her pass. "No! What about you? You can't leave us, Mum!" Lyla cries.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl8qUVREoZp
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"Lyla, it'll be okay. I promise, take my pass and get outside. I'll meet with Mikey and I'll see you all outside, okay?"216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4zxeXCwVpw
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"No, just come with us now." Gideon begs, pulling on her arm. She bites her lip and looks at them all. "Please." Is the only and few words out of Paisley's mouth as she rarely speaks.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6lcnuWVydt
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"Okay." Ester tells them. "But rug up first, please. It's really cold outside, Lyla." She says, pulling off her coat and beanie, handing them to Lyla, making sure they fit and are done up.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR1Zvl8PLqK
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"Okay, let's go-" She smiles heading to the door when there is a blood splatter spraying out of Ester's forehead, her expression going blank and she falls to the floor, a metal bullet casing hitting the floor.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWualwvhs5g
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Lyla lets out a scream and has to cup her own mouth. Standing there behind Ester just down the hall, holding a gun is Cloud, expression cold. He doesn't anything.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj7XzdIASAc
"You monster!" Gideon yells at him. "We we're nice to you and you do this to a good person?! Ester was a good doctor! She was one of the good ones!"216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGSQU0UE66G
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"And maybe that's why you're not dead. Consider yourself lucky." Cloud speaks up and turns around leaving.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ778ZDzULdo
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"Mum." Lyla cries, hugging Ester's dead body. "Lyla, I'm sorry. But we have to go. His going to pick of each of the leaders one by one. We have to get out now, there is still a bomb." Gideon tells her, picking up his blood splattered friend, carrying her outside despite her protests as Paisley is given the pass swiping which sets off an alarm as this is a fire exit, she's carrying Zekey's cage. They all run for the furtherest helictopter, snagging their stuff and Slate and Beth's on the way with great difficulty.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL44gU1o3oJ
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As they jump into the backseat, they see trucks everywhere driving around madly.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoqHu9biblZ
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"Come on, Slate." Gideon breathes as he tries to comfort Lyla while Paisley sits there neutral, just holding Zekey's cage in her lap.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIRzrpZo1ie
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Slate makes it a corridor and stumbles tripping over Ester's body as he doesn't mean to, dropping himself and Beth to the floor. He gasps, looking over his shoulder. "Ester?" He whispers seeing her lying there, shocked expression and bleeding out even though she's already dead.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOWnR6DsJsD
He has no choice, but to pull himself together and get up, picking a sedated Beth back up. He does so and runs, not noticing the bottle of pills that fell out of his pocket and his left behind.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgn7TFZo0kk
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He swipes the pass and runs out the door, the alarm triggering. It's a long run, but he pushes himself after seeing their stuff isn't in the field. 216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZLjjzOsT5W
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He makes it to the furthest helicopter seeing his friends are inside. He pulls open the pilot door and jumps inside, placing Beth down quickily in the passengar seat, securing her seatbelt and then his own. He grabs the keys from where all keys are kept in each helicopter and pulls his door shut.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhXY8OVFYfI
"How we feeling everybody?" He asks as he starts up the helicopter, blades rotating.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx2277noM5Q
"Really foggy and weird. Our noses bled, the pills you gave us... we remember certain stuff. Not all of it... Slate, what'd they do to us? How long has it been?" Lyla asks, voice shaking.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhN6jRffjOQ
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"Three years."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgtFgHGmdum
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"What?!" Gideon yells while Paisley just looks disinterested, daydreaming out the window. The helicopter slowly takes off, ascending to the sky.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1bLMkQ9mfU
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This is going to be difficult, he hasn't done this in a long time. They are just before the neck of this place going up when Slate's radio comes to life.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJrMT26xI9k
"Slate! What are you doing?! There are easier ways, we have a truck-" Mikey calls out.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdLjGk17y66
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Slate quickly grasps it, switching it off and opens a window as they aren't to high up yet, tossing it and then slams it closed.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLX6JO3Hcn6
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He looks to his friends smiling and they smile back, except Paisley. He then continues their ascent and their eyes all light up seeing the beautiful world they forgot and the sunlight. Though it looks very empty, no people and in the distance, the dead remains of Hope-Thorn.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcA8UQxv1YM
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"Where are we goanna go?" Lyla asks. 216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnSx01oe8YF
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"Anywhere WE want." Slate responds, pushing the helicopter forward and they fly off into the sun. 216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS4VIPugHWj
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Down below, several trucks park outside far away enough from The Compound which is located inside an old mine.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡst6yYtE0NR
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Grayson and Mikey each jump out of their respective trucks, they weren't able to save many people. In Mikey's passengar seat lies Ester's dead body, a blanket over her.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0avkE8OQuD
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He didn't know what to do and he had been yet to tell Gray. "They're gone?" Grayson speaks up, watching Slate fly away. "Let them go, if they don't want to stay, they don't have to-"216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXbBe2YTtXy
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But his cut off by hearing the place behind them explode, rocking everything. They get ready to proceed further away when someone comes stumbling out of the ruins, thankfully the others they rescued can't see as they're all gossiping and so fourth. Grayson adds a silencer quickly to his gun and aims it, standing in Solayo's road, Mikey beside him for support. "Do it." Mikey tells him. 216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0xBsP0pC5l
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Before Solayo can say a word, it's a headshot and his knocked down. "Better now, buddy?" Mikey asks.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLOyi3oS6KB
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"Yes. Let's get out of here, find a place to set up. We might be able to cure a section of Hope-Thorn. We don't have the numbers we need to clean the whole place out."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtLDlUVTCcP
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"We'll try." And our remaining leaders still alive walk back to their trucks when they hear the sound of an engine coming towards them and they have to dive out the way, shrieks heard from the back of their trucks as bullets hit the side, the driver of an upcoming motorbike with not so good aim now. He huffs and drive onwards up the road into the distance never to be seen again.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPxC3OW1Xvv
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Grayson and Mikey compose themselves, standing up now that Cloud is gone. 216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM6VdgF9LYr
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"Where you think he goanna go?"216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBxnLFftZ6W
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"Don't know. Sarah's dead, but his ex-wife still might be out there alive. Maybe to find her?" Mikey responds.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqPZeJQudKC
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The sun is setting, the world getting hazy. "We really need to find a place to land for the night." Slate speaks up. "Gideon, can you reach for the map?"216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh1NdPDIfyG
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Gideon reaches his hand out to grasp the map when she beats him to it, waking up and opens the map, struggling to focus on it. "It's okay, Beth. Let Gid have it." He tells her as she's stirring, waking up. 216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXXtpinfQ8M
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Gideon takes the map from her when she gasps for air, panicking and sitting upright, clutching her neck and arms.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEj8yIb1rxG
"You're okay, I bandaged them for you." He tells her and she relaxes, looking around confused where they are. 216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK9oYsmFYEe
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"You might want to give her one of the pills, Slate." Gideon tells him.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKVVpZuE3Vl
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"Oh, yeah." He responds, thumbling in his pocket, but the only thing there is his secret folded up note... and the clean roll of bandages he stole.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTnObq5LdsN
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"Bad news, they're gone, Gid."216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡef1NutmFCQ
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"Well, this is going to be a problem." He responds, everyone looking to a hazy confused Beth in the passengar seat who remembers nothing, not even a hint of something. 216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi3B8WncAT4
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They could try and trigger a crashback without reversal drugs or surgery, but it won't be easy. Beth turns over in her seat, facing the opposite direction. 216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡomxINigWPe
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Oblivious as Gideon and Lyla are reading the map to him, Paisley reaches out a small hand to Beth down the other side of the seat. She reaches for it and closes her eyes, falling back to sleep.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVLviaL13ED
