Slate, Lyla, Gideon, Paisley and Bethany at each of their own respective tables are packing tinned food into crates, aprons and hair nets donned. 217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqdEhy4hJWQ
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLF7DneJEOt
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"Can we talk outside?"217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5OJB0vm7t6
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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?"217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwG27GWqmPz
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And she leaves, no one answering her. 217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2DTRVLrFJU
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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...217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfHXjJG2vNv
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIX8O62VOT7
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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."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTn2lqvf82Q
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"You want to finish what Slate started?"217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPi7pvBzDXc
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"Why not? Break them out. We're all in the position to help them."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5pDd26FSG5
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgD50QRKsPm
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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. 217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHrTD7JLhoZ
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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."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9f5mJxLuKN
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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."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRjDFFcVamP
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"What?"217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGjm5EpAeji
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"Crashback."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM1KVCv9ee9
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"But that won't undo the last few years of-"217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj7sy1JrUoH
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNUDp317JXB
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdCSED3swVz
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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."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaJ4iPrHdKI
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"Like his leadership skills?"217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLtRYcpMNFl
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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."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNjokB9d5dr
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"So how do we do that? His skills are still something that would be a spot target."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzWR2eBOHpV
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"Well, it's going to leave two holes in his head. They'll heal, but-"217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRNiOWe50pG
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"Shit."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4G3bQGuU12
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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."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsSXjUNcjHk
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"And what about the rest?"217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2YIQPwew1g
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"They're fine, they can just keep doing their sorting task."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3oAmWzrS3I
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtgSiCjwd9f
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcpnIrs43ft
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡutSkElyggF
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJHYdV5s9TW
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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. 217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1SybFO4zvr
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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. 217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0f0Mqz8vKD
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrzNMcyMvp7
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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. 217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKwniznI8Qu
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKsJBW4co2K
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKoLEpkpLIh
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbk7V1caK7l
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsrttMzSgcY
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"I wouldn't play with that if I were you. The last person who did was severed from me."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ34moiY0Vma
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Says a voice, female. "Hello?" He calls out. No reply is heard.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlXXtJf4BA7
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"Why am I here? What am I supposed to do?!" He yells out fustrated. "Who am I?"217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ783kXYogvD
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"Your heart knows who you are and you know what you are supposed to do."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZJy071e2yl
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNT5RHmTksp
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4XTVu7OSef
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1FQOsTA3MK
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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-217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDvAmrbZ74N
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And then his eyes widen, he sits up straight and looks them both in the eyes. 217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb68paQIX5c
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"Do you know who you are? Who we are?"217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUaj0d0Oju1
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"Slate. You both are the leaders, Ester and Mikey. What have you both done? You're monsters."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOlNvpZdivY
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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. 217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiseCx1okEU
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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. 217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOLvORNRVdR
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We'll meet up with ya'll later outside. We'll run you a distraction."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoIdl8pFIG1
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoQ5CBD4CNj
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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. 217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpvqhuRXeSU
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡavgZQw0ZLE
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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. 217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI8BksCQ0bN
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTx43jQ9kk2
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡivsgMHajno
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkrlC4mO2Ix
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We ran outside for help and the guards took her away, proably to triage."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHCmHX7apYj
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSqwQJGzcjl
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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."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPQikCHPQH1
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡADyaF9sucU
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgBoY46o6Gu
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"Why are we doing this?" Gideon asks. 217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5b0BR5QLDx
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"You might understand once you've taken it."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsL6sCZ6HGK
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Lyla and Gideon shrug, downing them. Paisley just looks at them. "Paisley."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOU7kpzpYw6
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"I don't need them, I'm not stupid like you all are."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsq0iLxS5Sy
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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."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIOftq3bioY
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡISq6f00ePV
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCDumMgg4E7
He roughly grips Murphy's arms pulling him back. "Woah, look at you." Murphy says, eyeing Slate up and down. 217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDqHaI4rMqn
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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."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzy544zMWLY
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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. 217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoBG3MHhNFB
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So fly away, Slate."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJftWGPYEOe
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"I can't, I need to find, Beth."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7JMuhTBpnn
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"Uh, Infirmary I think. She was dragged out of the sorting room."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPT3MHUyrvD
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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."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYKYt4IlYPx
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"Fucking psychotic bitches."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV2dWveyLgl
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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." 217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj8AxLgzQkh
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpANnzIc23A
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJLHilwTzkL
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGOVKnDMIpE
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbTbafQFhu3
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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."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8xGL1UXHHf
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrh3VmWi2qF
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"Uh, did Bethany come through here?" He asks a nurse hoping she won't realize isn't security.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4KvM9UcQRI
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"Bethany?"217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaVqSYgLUTf
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"Short blonde hair, blue eyes, she... cut heself."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUBPBDqjb65
"Uh, yep. She's in with a doctor now. Solayo's personal office I think."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOsDJhl2nEh
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"Are you okay? You don't look so good. The bandage on your head, is it bleeding?"217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhz08KM21Jz
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUqTkeHxOKE
"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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq2KXY89cvD
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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. 217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV8ZPLgQ77r
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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-217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1PK4B8F9IB
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"Solayo! Come in!" Solayo's walkie talkie picks up. Solayo sighs and answers while he preps a needle for Bethany. 217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG4zlakuYz6
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"What is it Grayson? I'm kind of busy right now playing doctor."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡin0PAvb8dD
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"You won't believe what I and Mikey just saw-"217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRQ1G7AsbNi
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"What?"217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxbMwJm4MOd
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"There is a bomb! Cloud NO joke rigged up a bomb."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaGHUgYx4wh
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"Come on-"217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNMoLQxcFOG
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"We're going to evacuate everyone."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNFtD3ztGgf
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"Grayson, we can't. This place is too large for that and there are to many people for that."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7RN14qX9XK
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"But-"217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS2Y565Xv9s
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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..."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8J7RC5TVPd
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"You can't be serious-"217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLtJeMvLxXo
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"It's that or everyone dies."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTcrIaL6T4D
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"Okay, we'll try." And Grayson clicks off the channel.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ59aEBAEHnA
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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. 217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH99kKRSZm2
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"Slate, are you there?"217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUMTRnwOScp
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"Cloud's rigged a bomb."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4LThjrnOh8
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"How'd you know?!"217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl1x8JdAmWH
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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."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbMOOPdLs3y
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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."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsksLQGUv4E
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"Whatever, you'll handle it. I have to face off with Solayo right now, Bethany's with him!"217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2fRBFvC2Ut
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"Shit. Why?"217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9wtstxfXeJ
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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. 217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8mbn39w6gS
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"What the hell are you doing here? How did you get that?!"217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI4TMI4IBp1
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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. 217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2BK34S3rre
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"You're diffrent. What happened to you?"217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFP1V5vIHVb
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"Solayo, leave while you still can. There is a bomb."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIt517SqmRy
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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. 217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnoB9kh4BbL
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"Dip shit!" He yells, pulling on it. "Solayo! Solayo, come back!" 217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbzcyxU3V4F
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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. 217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfSrbxFt5H6
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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."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrem2zUnxX5
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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-"217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSMwX3yhUeN
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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. 217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwmimInK8WE
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB4iiwievds
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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. 217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYr8D13OCnL
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw7Y05RoB72
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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. 217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxvOBYlWFIH
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEQpPycvLz0
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"Shit, we'll have to go back and go around another way if we can." Gideon curses. 217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9PPFXwEP78
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbBWOqp8QJL
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"I'm sorry, I don't want to alarm you. But we located Cloud, he rigged a bomb." 217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpOdDEI6ns5
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She hands them her pass. "No! What about you? You can't leave us, Mum!" Lyla cries.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRCMCXXQoc6
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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?"217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡySKvSHZhj9
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcE4d45ANxv
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYrdQGAO1yJ
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLpKr46ULkI
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkGjox1VkFJ
"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!"217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYlrc2qrPuL
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"And maybe that's why you're not dead. Consider yourself lucky." Cloud speaks up and turns around leaving.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS7Q18pSrHQ
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0jFJcXunqI
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As they jump into the backseat, they see trucks everywhere driving around madly.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfzy4xWWt2l
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtKiVP1iJqO
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0721M0e5hG
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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCvUbSfBG4f
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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. 217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡowmf8XBVXf
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0WAzH6t6Nw
"How we feeling everybody?" He asks as he starts up the helicopter, blades rotating.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfKwbs8ycSk
"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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8gRKbldu8H
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"Three years."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtie08YI7KX
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsmXUexzfPu
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKsY2R1YnM8
"Slate! What are you doing?! There are easier ways, we have a truck-" Mikey calls out.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpTdXVKK4lx
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ60M7nRbUyr
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHPgI8el4TC
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"Where are we goanna go?" Lyla asks. 217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxt4YypUJ9i
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"Anywhere WE want." Slate responds, pushing the helicopter forward and they fly off into the sun. 217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvYyYyZcJ2x
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Down below, several trucks park outside far away enough from The Compound which is located inside an old mine.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡreTla9olyW
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdUHe1nFmnG
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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-"217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJTAbAeZZlu
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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. 217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrKrE2jaTUO
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Before Solayo can say a word, it's a headshot and his knocked down. "Better now, buddy?" Mikey asks.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMcfZF2et7i
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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."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡseWLuA124G
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvsI2DdBcm8
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Grayson and Mikey compose themselves, standing up now that Cloud is gone. 217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv0Stg8uDhl
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"Where you think he goanna go?"217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP2Pg0K6Cdd
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡISWfcRMKd0
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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?"217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ949ndWxUfS
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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. 217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQGoaHKYCCf
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Gideon takes the map from her when she gasps for air, panicking and sitting upright, clutching her neck and arms.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7EDAOUmj3l
"You're okay, I bandaged them for you." He tells her and she relaxes, looking around confused where they are. 217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv9NnNeSasA
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"You might want to give her one of the pills, Slate." Gideon tells him.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4NESkLEBOe
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKn8ZHVvbDb
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"Bad news, they're gone, Gid."217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHirJVHLEp2
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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. 217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNRKYHWfbip
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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. 217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE6tordT9aN
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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.217Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfMXQ8wjdyk
