Slate, Lyla, Gideon, Paisley and Bethany at each of their own respective tables are packing tinned food into crates, aprons and hair nets donned. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzdmIlSF7aS
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm5kIGHyAt4
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"Can we talk outside?"122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpIVyOFp0gl
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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?"122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ1kqkXzSkw
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And she leaves, no one answering her. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv4B3MS2sIu
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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...122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw7CNsZHP89
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMXxwp32jKN
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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."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7nqBfMTr9W
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"You want to finish what Slate started?"122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsAGHQudOdD
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"Why not? Break them out. We're all in the position to help them."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcYc8uIr8dc
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbF4JZIIkuT
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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. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3b4MK5Or4M
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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."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnMr6D8nX6A
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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."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4gUOsQvDxb
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"What?"122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlHHY5V6a2H
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"Crashback."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8GybwcNQkb
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"But that won't undo the last few years of-"122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWbaS4l9Y6G
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkT8dXKPIPB
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ951UOfIOcJ
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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."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhDDMJWDBvB
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"Like his leadership skills?"122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6yszclEpmu
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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."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF8NbhbPVO3
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"So how do we do that? His skills are still something that would be a spot target."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1oMjgwEz6P
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"Well, it's going to leave two holes in his head. They'll heal, but-"122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGGkRE9WULS
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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."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡto6QhUdqrz
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"And what about the rest?"122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbVIoKK0eih
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"They're fine, they can just keep doing their sorting task."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfq7ijS36ZF
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7z5GYPffAQ
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡthwTRI8Xn0
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ048BDqH8xB
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡod7xHoJZ8E
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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. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKUJnvid6BI
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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. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaGq1GFGK4x
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKjtvlAMZ3K
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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. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo0s1xo8JiJ
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCNSMuvDdef
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZpXI0L3Lrt
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3TU5QwkbLl
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBQ7BNJyBuU
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"I wouldn't play with that if I were you. The last person who did was severed from me."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH5Cvva1TUk
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Says a voice, female. "Hello?" He calls out. No reply is heard.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn8vbXLg550
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"Why am I here? What am I supposed to do?!" He yells out fustrated. "Who am I?"122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkjeYKW63mS
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"Your heart knows who you are and you know what you are supposed to do."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLC8SUchDOq
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk2ng0EzHYB
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNb6W13UF50
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEz8Ewo0568
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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-122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlUHpNc8AuI
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And then his eyes widen, he sits up straight and looks them both in the eyes. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2keI70GpPB
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"Do you know who you are? Who we are?"122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOtbXdBYJRt
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"Slate. You both are the leaders, Ester and Mikey. What have you both done? You're monsters."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKW25NTb8dB
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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. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZPd5491vGj
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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. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2mAjFi8RV2
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We'll meet up with ya'll later outside. We'll run you a distraction."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMu5hCEJLdZ
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjpQlqLNZue
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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. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxydjNHxjPX
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ewOtdDaFS
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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. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSvPojL3d24
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT0RjIG0sgP
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoq3uEEQcnm
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ8ncQzBHYw
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We ran outside for help and the guards took her away, proably to triage."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7SyLMIuShF
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡexBxT2aEkB
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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."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjuoHdkbuDJ
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo6qqwBL2Gc
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgZeCe5WuII
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"Why are we doing this?" Gideon asks. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsa60o4ELiO
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"You might understand once you've taken it."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfUTNIHJAKH
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Lyla and Gideon shrug, downing them. Paisley just looks at them. "Paisley."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWVllNMuJMW
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"I don't need them, I'm not stupid like you all are."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVBwR6GS2KH
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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."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiDFd54bCsy
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUMoyFE9rz9
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLBbUnUWJvy
He roughly grips Murphy's arms pulling him back. "Woah, look at you." Murphy says, eyeing Slate up and down. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIpn0cXJcJe
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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."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMyPxLTJxuw
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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. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYN3IqVNpVo
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So fly away, Slate."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOzh8fzHyQK
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"I can't, I need to find, Beth."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXzu79DuDUF
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"Uh, Infirmary I think. She was dragged out of the sorting room."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkTmIBI8nNT
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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."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc2bk9whIBE
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"Fucking psychotic bitches."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsKDU0QNIE6
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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." 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5OZxOJmY4U
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf0ijFf46ja
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhMslTfmYLh
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJlUrdEJilp
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4kpHSfWYFg
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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."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDL77pOj3DF
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL7WgjGlUUI
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"Uh, did Bethany come through here?" He asks a nurse hoping she won't realize isn't security.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9gOaNr2yyd
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"Bethany?"122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0zrjfS3fH0
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"Short blonde hair, blue eyes, she... cut heself."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡldPNUzJRwR
"Uh, yep. She's in with a doctor now. Solayo's personal office I think."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTXPn6xVp3h
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"Are you okay? You don't look so good. The bandage on your head, is it bleeding?"122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyvSyB1jgsB
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuJ7WxG2Iw3
"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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhVuJfVRVVr
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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. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ12KRxFoDQp
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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-122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxhH2QQdlL4
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"Solayo! Come in!" Solayo's walkie talkie picks up. Solayo sighs and answers while he preps a needle for Bethany. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQFO20Wp4ay
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"What is it Grayson? I'm kind of busy right now playing doctor."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtI5aRKUBzd
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"You won't believe what I and Mikey just saw-"122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhjJDy2Rk3o
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"What?"122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAQVIKz48x0
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"There is a bomb! Cloud NO joke rigged up a bomb."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaMWRUROx8R
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"Come on-"122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZE7WL8GL71
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"We're going to evacuate everyone."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaeofkdnZnv
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"Grayson, we can't. This place is too large for that and there are to many people for that."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0XkMnWkBnW
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"But-"122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrA80f3xMH8
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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..."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoH70jIs1wL
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"You can't be serious-"122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyBEAtCPuTG
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"It's that or everyone dies."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKkASnJAXVy
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"Okay, we'll try." And Grayson clicks off the channel.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ktV7Dm3to
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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. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWewBIqwsoD
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"Slate, are you there?"122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkUQjgIRCCO
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"Cloud's rigged a bomb."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCbdYieMiYH
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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."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJWIPUFCxF8
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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."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3VaYjFwF0G
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"Whatever, you'll handle it. I have to face off with Solayo right now, Bethany's with him!"122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSUBApu3PSt
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"Shit. Why?"122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSU3FqgninR
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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. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqEdvRMPcf2
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"What the hell are you doing here? How did you get that?!"122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡluQTi9Eg0h
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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. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9hRCp2K4z2
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"You're diffrent. What happened to you?"122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKx3c9JS44v
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"Solayo, leave while you still can. There is a bomb."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ59stAyasZ
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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. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0THeNd9Qzn
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"Dip shit!" He yells, pulling on it. "Solayo! Solayo, come back!" 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsErM55AnkK
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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. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhG4BeQFWOW
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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."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6jrPstQfoA
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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-"122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqn92Aui7cq
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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. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgYCMlliLTq
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSE7ZTukjqd
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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. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvUCX5QOZNU
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeycGmh6tiv
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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. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHFhXKOdgAP
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaaCdyalI0M
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"Shit, we'll have to go back and go around another way if we can." Gideon curses. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1AwNFl01W5
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQzIe37jBSP
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"I'm sorry, I don't want to alarm you. But we located Cloud, he rigged a bomb." 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnkWX2e334g
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She hands them her pass. "No! What about you? You can't leave us, Mum!" Lyla cries.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEwUtDZ6mjN
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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?"122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡantlcYIPuJ
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLXdD1jojrN
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg1Dj3JRCIc
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM75veikSI0
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC0R4lsGR4u
"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!"122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcQhAv5mOBC
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"And maybe that's why you're not dead. Consider yourself lucky." Cloud speaks up and turns around leaving.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfvo2aynm9m
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVksm3Og9SM
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As they jump into the backseat, they see trucks everywhere driving around madly.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPP2ZVWnUyV
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwn0XZEikZJ
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO0Wx9yIOxd
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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ73PrOneFCL
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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. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDp6FRgdiig
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdPwhD50i0g
"How we feeling everybody?" He asks as he starts up the helicopter, blades rotating.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFlZ2YUWvWO
"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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIK9lRwNRnN
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"Three years."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqW4p9utmwu
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6yMN6JnQOD
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ7tBpPfxl9
"Slate! What are you doing?! There are easier ways, we have a truck-" Mikey calls out.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKW4qNjVHM6
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvXufMqoTj9
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHU9MXxKDPG
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"Where are we goanna go?" Lyla asks. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuNg8dyW1K6
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"Anywhere WE want." Slate responds, pushing the helicopter forward and they fly off into the sun. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTHMCCb2hbc
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Down below, several trucks park outside far away enough from The Compound which is located inside an old mine.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5yZUp1YcGd
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8BEGvqyrjd
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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-"122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQeJyDtrd25
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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. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaT9VGQajqL
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Before Solayo can say a word, it's a headshot and his knocked down. "Better now, buddy?" Mikey asks.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD0idpcBTB4
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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."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqHh8rfl8MO
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8orkb0DcZz
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Grayson and Mikey compose themselves, standing up now that Cloud is gone. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGdTi9jXwMb
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"Where you think he goanna go?"122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡezgrHHXTyc
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOliwlDFxsU
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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?"122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU08egBKSO9
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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. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAMAaLaTXhj
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Gideon takes the map from her when she gasps for air, panicking and sitting upright, clutching her neck and arms.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxBCBCUqgxg
"You're okay, I bandaged them for you." He tells her and she relaxes, looking around confused where they are. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoch2rQVAxN
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"You might want to give her one of the pills, Slate." Gideon tells him.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBJkPyk2GJH
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM00TS8Q0Y0
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"Bad news, they're gone, Gid."122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq3UuxbOhus
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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. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOqIkIZNlub
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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. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQkSwZwbb0K
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaKerFVTVHg
