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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsQgf2GUtFo
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"Can we talk outside?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXnrnZPcj2e
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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?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ZOjDY6UaF
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And she leaves, no one answering her. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCbDlRf0Im4
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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...144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQH6s6B5W4z
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRutQ2lJTQX
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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."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbBW8XuEqU6
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"You want to finish what Slate started?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6NVMKg7xcA
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"Why not? Break them out. We're all in the position to help them."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWZoMJb6df7
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm17bMOFw8P
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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. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjEBtyp3LX8
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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."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSMPLVczfik
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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."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnTTcFvrVgx
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"What?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaGieJBtJwb
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"Crashback."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYjSOMNRBvR
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"But that won't undo the last few years of-"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Xc4bo6203
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUCdF370O0x
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG0ES17jRmI
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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."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEWuhA68hhy
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"Like his leadership skills?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9wI5DjPUWf
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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."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUj4loyjQZV
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"So how do we do that? His skills are still something that would be a spot target."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfAtfIwF0Zq
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"Well, it's going to leave two holes in his head. They'll heal, but-"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo3eJvhxppQ
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"Shit."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsGopwq0z2X
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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."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrbCHhu4Zv5
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"And what about the rest?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9au9flnmFh
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"They're fine, they can just keep doing their sorting task."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2x9dlz5aoc
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxQhELKvZua
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAVZK9wGes1
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwshiv41Hns
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs0je8E9BlX
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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. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx3ucfU8pGH
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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. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5MLhxUcjKv
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhO6k0pLAY7
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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. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1yuGScM6ce
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFIdorXtGvb
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzrDNoIcAsN
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLKoMdvjAqr
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJifOAxHJ1m
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"I wouldn't play with that if I were you. The last person who did was severed from me."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp4Otdb8JXI
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Says a voice, female. "Hello?" He calls out. No reply is heard.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL2uNS07Wg4
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"Why am I here? What am I supposed to do?!" He yells out fustrated. "Who am I?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡieTPA2VBQI
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"Your heart knows who you are and you know what you are supposed to do."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYDj7fEQ3Kb
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY6bIBqGsag
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaGWqvYR6d2
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡatYwYBr7Ym
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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-144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmodgaSnIGC
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And then his eyes widen, he sits up straight and looks them both in the eyes. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2PpgdSG6fJ
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"Do you know who you are? Who we are?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrD5IpcGptm
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"Slate. You both are the leaders, Ester and Mikey. What have you both done? You're monsters."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmtIyemm6TF
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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. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0exVpX8XcI
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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. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5218CL35AB
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We'll meet up with ya'll later outside. We'll run you a distraction."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnYSQV9dxXx
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuVPTzCtZpV
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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. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg4602Hmsk9
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdk7DUtlFzs
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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. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqDaN1JA6B8
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvQUNwiN9Rz
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0TlJrm4lWS
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡogxjkI3t8f
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We ran outside for help and the guards took her away, proably to triage."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqfJozvZvdf
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1JUzMEd0DP
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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."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡakHY4svMwg
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLWjzOcu8md
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCjQcA7p7Oy
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"Why are we doing this?" Gideon asks. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnWRzJLt8Ue
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"You might understand once you've taken it."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZe1U5ZcFdc
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Lyla and Gideon shrug, downing them. Paisley just looks at them. "Paisley."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFn7n4w69Tx
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"I don't need them, I'm not stupid like you all are."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbFkAoxijG1
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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."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaNuDbIP8P0
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPOec8RT9gR
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGBGWmCbNCn
He roughly grips Murphy's arms pulling him back. "Woah, look at you." Murphy says, eyeing Slate up and down. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdqaA8Zx8gy
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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."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjaXlAilwtw
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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. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzyDBFtggRP
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So fly away, Slate."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVH61TcWUZ2
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"I can't, I need to find, Beth."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsqYlxdGIWX
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"Uh, Infirmary I think. She was dragged out of the sorting room."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr4v2zsYJwl
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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."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwy0x0NLreZ
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"Fucking psychotic bitches."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoBwORlhYTD
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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." 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSUDHuWaqo6
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8NLY0EBu93
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm429qfg3Ou
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFpbQR4h4mV
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsQN1fpueWs
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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."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzJI6PNSrO2
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrtk4oHS3mO
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"Uh, did Bethany come through here?" He asks a nurse hoping she won't realize isn't security.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwI0VJLg8OC
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"Bethany?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnArox2kj79
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"Short blonde hair, blue eyes, she... cut heself."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG5Hz3FrbEJ
"Uh, yep. She's in with a doctor now. Solayo's personal office I think."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa0zbon4eOR
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"Shit."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjIp9IkYCNH
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"Are you okay? You don't look so good. The bandage on your head, is it bleeding?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpcv1OkcQfJ
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcqpShwxRfo
"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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTSrUWMgbfR
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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. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKEhNgRxbTV
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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-144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡApuwOylH7n
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"Solayo! Come in!" Solayo's walkie talkie picks up. Solayo sighs and answers while he preps a needle for Bethany. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG8TVLOTuQv
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"What is it Grayson? I'm kind of busy right now playing doctor."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoME6D2oyNN
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"You won't believe what I and Mikey just saw-"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJHMqvb3Bsd
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"What?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnMF8iFSqi6
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"There is a bomb! Cloud NO joke rigged up a bomb."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs8oNhdFnVi
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"Come on-"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJZWtRX6J1N
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"We're going to evacuate everyone."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbNg6seHRyg
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"Grayson, we can't. This place is too large for that and there are to many people for that."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXA8LCFZAW0
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"But-"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTVDpKF2UOx
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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..."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjE9wSBmmon
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"You can't be serious-"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuYA5ZOQFJK
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"It's that or everyone dies."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY1kZFwUaDZ
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"Okay, we'll try." And Grayson clicks off the channel.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG9YyASCWZ1
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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. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIOx2K36OGw
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"Slate, are you there?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6qwOClsVFM
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"Cloud's rigged a bomb."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEv6jo8hR81
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"How'd you know?!"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWtzUxLp8Xa
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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."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp1FsUIsQVw
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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."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrSzOkzWI3T
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"Whatever, you'll handle it. I have to face off with Solayo right now, Bethany's with him!"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWHnpokZGey
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"Shit. Why?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4GsWFYABjD
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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. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ748hE8RVeK
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"What the hell are you doing here? How did you get that?!"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIFPbv46yA3
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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. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ53NPxSsAUZ
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"You're diffrent. What happened to you?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3yikELghLL
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"Solayo, leave while you still can. There is a bomb."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWc5TKm7yFC
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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. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgRW3AjM4Ia
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"Dip shit!" He yells, pulling on it. "Solayo! Solayo, come back!" 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaeAaFwAkkQ
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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. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNaJj574Kkj
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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."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsvNv9e6CQO
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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-"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp36XXlZdiD
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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. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6IihGHpeDJ
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbWd02oFI2r
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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. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqL4rk4e5xd
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhLEMvzQMXg
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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. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPghIk19mY1
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkTE8wU1od2
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"Shit, we'll have to go back and go around another way if we can." Gideon curses. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbh0K09ZekJ
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnL6rsSF0nw
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"I'm sorry, I don't want to alarm you. But we located Cloud, he rigged a bomb." 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7hRA3WhyQf
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She hands them her pass. "No! What about you? You can't leave us, Mum!" Lyla cries.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVDQvqhyLxX
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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?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp4qTznkaB7
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡynjX8gTL2x
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8q5PQ8h3TP
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGHqgCtM9gi
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxil8E06Bbo
"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!"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsEu4uPsG4o
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"And maybe that's why you're not dead. Consider yourself lucky." Cloud speaks up and turns around leaving.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlfpq2qzc8z
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3lRjTBv9BW
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As they jump into the backseat, they see trucks everywhere driving around madly.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ7BrACmtDc
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHsUsL5VCtZ
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmPvexjqvvH
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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkuekeL8Vzc
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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. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ8VspDXZvN
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmwAStunKpS
"How we feeling everybody?" He asks as he starts up the helicopter, blades rotating.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvqVbeu21uI
"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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnzioMAAYR6
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"Three years."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIB2oCA0Qip
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5YGzhKVViC
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPfrogs4EFo
"Slate! What are you doing?! There are easier ways, we have a truck-" Mikey calls out.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwjS9ds4ByA
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjI6Aw5mYV2
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvSNHAQQjWp
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"Where are we goanna go?" Lyla asks. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0nm5dOctEN
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"Anywhere WE want." Slate responds, pushing the helicopter forward and they fly off into the sun. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc6QPzk7LA1
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Down below, several trucks park outside far away enough from The Compound which is located inside an old mine.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqXfvWIEVYk
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRIithvf1Jf
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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-"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdTYRRans9P
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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. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ89WNUHZDp9
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Before Solayo can say a word, it's a headshot and his knocked down. "Better now, buddy?" Mikey asks.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYlXIWg7WWR
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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."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ejNw3QvAB
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWMpk8tNHBf
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Grayson and Mikey compose themselves, standing up now that Cloud is gone. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8bWX2x1yIk
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"Where you think he goanna go?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCOTovnwlbO
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv4f6DUJXg1
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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?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ0F8oFlwWM
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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. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpbCpWTXefZ
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Gideon takes the map from her when she gasps for air, panicking and sitting upright, clutching her neck and arms.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsAGxVs6kFI
"You're okay, I bandaged them for you." He tells her and she relaxes, looking around confused where they are. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE7PFlX1ClF
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"You might want to give her one of the pills, Slate." Gideon tells him.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo75bzuzGF3
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6XkTc9pKKL
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"Bad news, they're gone, Gid."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyhVLLddyN2
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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. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYYo1ZjkkuX
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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. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOHxiJgzfoK
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjwEZzTPjFj
