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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5PgGeXwaTR
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"Can we talk outside?"153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAoGwQr7wfZ
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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?"153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsZuZZvpHto
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And she leaves, no one answering her. 153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQkPjdZ1xcW
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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...153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCkHxSVOwaI
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1vusk8IEMD
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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."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9SQcQoF8XI
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"You want to finish what Slate started?"153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8BQhXcWqbN
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"Why not? Break them out. We're all in the position to help them."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAbk8P1guQe
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxZBOGBZNtS
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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. 153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuS6nxhbfKU
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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."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUpvPKkTk2u
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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."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK5EZPQzWZR
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"What?"153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtwWlADq5L5
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"Crashback."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Qi1uUKykv
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"But that won't undo the last few years of-"153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFuvhRTyeqx
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTKxmls0Iqm
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDda7H9UWmO
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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."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7gfSTLOF4Q
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"Like his leadership skills?"153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWzbWmrPCb7
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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."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzzcKEwf5RX
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"So how do we do that? His skills are still something that would be a spot target."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy88jL4ZNUS
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"Well, it's going to leave two holes in his head. They'll heal, but-"153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmTcGnszzBr
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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."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYbiP2gJOsT
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"And what about the rest?"153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJjFNUm0QAO
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"They're fine, they can just keep doing their sorting task."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzZDwk1kQ20
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnZtZ43xrTs
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYYj2oCLVBI
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV1mH2314Ze
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGMuGfhvGpW
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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. 153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj3ndpzgvCS
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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. 153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyvcxV6AfQF
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSj5GZEH00x
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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. 153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDWjcPm4RpJ
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5k071IpTuS
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCPS9IzdkN6
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaoaVPBZn3q
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvrLrQCxOTo
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"I wouldn't play with that if I were you. The last person who did was severed from me."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEOMjAZ5IJ0
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Says a voice, female. "Hello?" He calls out. No reply is heard.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9qDl71fQg1
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"Why am I here? What am I supposed to do?!" He yells out fustrated. "Who am I?"153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFSKzqZEcAy
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"Your heart knows who you are and you know what you are supposed to do."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKUnDuRimDd
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡByJbOjDxRg
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsQjqAKJcb2
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxCbLG9jzMK
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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-153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcq2oTJxfBK
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And then his eyes widen, he sits up straight and looks them both in the eyes. 153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlOB7u71hp6
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"Do you know who you are? Who we are?"153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX7Gj4JQG0R
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"Slate. You both are the leaders, Ester and Mikey. What have you both done? You're monsters."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmyZ9IdubJU
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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. 153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡszw9TGKOIG
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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. 153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ9GSZTLq9N
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We'll meet up with ya'll later outside. We'll run you a distraction."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7oG37IpAR9
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSvOwWlxOph
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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. 153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiQ6fHqPtPM
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcDzpBoiiKa
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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. 153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzfeTtcalQy
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCbnoHQWb5m
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpbUxsfhLaG
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm3U1fX0CM3
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We ran outside for help and the guards took her away, proably to triage."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKu5J9hIJb7
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfDu3Kbwytl
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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."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIYCi2OtUXW
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQr3FaunSZm
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡevpjODTV5W
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"Why are we doing this?" Gideon asks. 153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeM2qt2Wuqb
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"You might understand once you've taken it."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuS7XgWLber
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Lyla and Gideon shrug, downing them. Paisley just looks at them. "Paisley."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBSuqZtLCmm
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"I don't need them, I'm not stupid like you all are."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Iau1SZ70E
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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."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyytjMIaJGq
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4qQPpWDk7Y
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdXusi1yZmT
He roughly grips Murphy's arms pulling him back. "Woah, look at you." Murphy says, eyeing Slate up and down. 153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw6GhZg2C5z
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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."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTTlsoKWAxD
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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. 153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdEfklQfzuW
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So fly away, Slate."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpFmTm79SBS
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"I can't, I need to find, Beth."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡonqkqNCxpi
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"Uh, Infirmary I think. She was dragged out of the sorting room."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡokynrGnCfg
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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."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDdShEFHhgd
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"Fucking psychotic bitches."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQvg28SY7Sj
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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." 153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm8RqLLWeJm
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaB0Zst8xuO
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVE47rBHwAp
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBV1RfM5d85
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvLenOqtx4I
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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."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3yB405yrBV
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFLYva8P2fP
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"Uh, did Bethany come through here?" He asks a nurse hoping she won't realize isn't security.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ptLKQRxfT
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"Bethany?"153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvBFFj5X782
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"Short blonde hair, blue eyes, she... cut heself."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0G4bkGOMWl
"Uh, yep. She's in with a doctor now. Solayo's personal office I think."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyhbQ8TLLXc
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"Are you okay? You don't look so good. The bandage on your head, is it bleeding?"153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡognoDSSPtD
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv3ekQQbgPx
"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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ24tFNMJ2Fp
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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. 153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM3Ree3cQbq
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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-153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5DP96fMC2h
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"Solayo! Come in!" Solayo's walkie talkie picks up. Solayo sighs and answers while he preps a needle for Bethany. 153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7OuZVAeunv
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"What is it Grayson? I'm kind of busy right now playing doctor."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYMV56HpXWh
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"You won't believe what I and Mikey just saw-"153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAyeuz8UBi1
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"What?"153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFSzn9UYG9e
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"There is a bomb! Cloud NO joke rigged up a bomb."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdQKnp9ZPqG
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"Come on-"153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUE8F0zHe0U
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"We're going to evacuate everyone."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBUlVwARgTJ
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"Grayson, we can't. This place is too large for that and there are to many people for that."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbd4Vcoloy1
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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..."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsDy8u2jFN1
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"You can't be serious-"153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhZVmWpxsrt
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"It's that or everyone dies."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡevszV4rFAd
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"Okay, we'll try." And Grayson clicks off the channel.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡum3k790faF
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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. 153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGZrg8K1BeT
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"Slate, are you there?"153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgwuWKNjcjn
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"Cloud's rigged a bomb."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZFVQerjqqj
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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."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhymleN4fdm
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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."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb069JuGVWw
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"Whatever, you'll handle it. I have to face off with Solayo right now, Bethany's with him!"153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoXVVQegihW
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"Shit. Why?"153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjypjOigbzV
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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. 153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjnxLZKso0y
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"What the hell are you doing here? How did you get that?!"153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLp7eogL9r3
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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. 153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9b0IiQpbnS
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"You're diffrent. What happened to you?"153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM0Nif2jMTB
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"Solayo, leave while you still can. There is a bomb."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe5hjTNkxKl
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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. 153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR2zLxsGR5w
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"Dip shit!" He yells, pulling on it. "Solayo! Solayo, come back!" 153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGIngD3pKKT
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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. 153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvaKTM19goa
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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."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ841v3BuV3A
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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-"153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJaS4gBTH0K
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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. 153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOHTSjfpEZb
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKXMMMGimmb
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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. 153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhW6E9MSV9A
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDNIekH17i5
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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. 153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTxqaihgzNG
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUyuzcff3Nt
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"Shit, we'll have to go back and go around another way if we can." Gideon curses. 153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡofxfftTuiM
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPodqN9p6Yu
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"I'm sorry, I don't want to alarm you. But we located Cloud, he rigged a bomb." 153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1GTJtY0dpm
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She hands them her pass. "No! What about you? You can't leave us, Mum!" Lyla cries.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYzuZ0wS4lH
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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?"153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBLUWR1XTRw
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyNLossJv4F
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIT9s4CUtEP
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUlFm3beb8K
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTmBWed8a7N
"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!"153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpPnO7XlIol
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"And maybe that's why you're not dead. Consider yourself lucky." Cloud speaks up and turns around leaving.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡODIrbJuQMn
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkarv2A4f3Q
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As they jump into the backseat, they see trucks everywhere driving around madly.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0fiTOgIRG1
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyYMOuv97qP
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD2hLZME1FP
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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVfjRZjGprr
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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. 153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc6bOjbT8FY
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdT1ySBWyfi
"How we feeling everybody?" He asks as he starts up the helicopter, blades rotating.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡucrEVxE00X
"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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm5nkxCGe6Y
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"Three years."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi1UNEfutw4
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0XNwop39WQ
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9HB9v1yZo5
"Slate! What are you doing?! There are easier ways, we have a truck-" Mikey calls out.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUeJmkzBwRT
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkCXBYsAWRt
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAQLbUlZgNJ
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"Where are we goanna go?" Lyla asks. 153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2edjb871K6
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"Anywhere WE want." Slate responds, pushing the helicopter forward and they fly off into the sun. 153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ05bflloMFX
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Down below, several trucks park outside far away enough from The Compound which is located inside an old mine.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7DV1I47Mwr
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFkvEBdluCR
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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-"153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm306kPIJ8X
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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. 153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0cIT6gdwgO
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Before Solayo can say a word, it's a headshot and his knocked down. "Better now, buddy?" Mikey asks.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwH4OB37H9c
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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."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3tKj4yiGBe
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4M824Cwae9
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Grayson and Mikey compose themselves, standing up now that Cloud is gone. 153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡadZBWyt7kn
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"Where you think he goanna go?"153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSmWeVDrj7t
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqdX7J0P26u
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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?"153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSAw5JUB98U
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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. 153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKyXOnlnYDW
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Gideon takes the map from her when she gasps for air, panicking and sitting upright, clutching her neck and arms.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE2xOt16vKQ
"You're okay, I bandaged them for you." He tells her and she relaxes, looking around confused where they are. 153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9SJKDSqXhk
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"You might want to give her one of the pills, Slate." Gideon tells him.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhRNnp7KvxV
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN41vk8PMUs
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"Bad news, they're gone, Gid."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzfCrbb5J9a
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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. 153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4c4iY62rGx
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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. 153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpIsyIIO8Cr
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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.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn6ej5W879M
