Slate, Lyla, Gideon, Paisley and Bethany at each of their own respective tables are packing tinned food into crates, aprons and hair nets donned. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTMxCCBJXmE
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdwS88kSPv1
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"Can we talk outside?"173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaCqAHQbyiL
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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?"173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMbStRHY5lE
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And she leaves, no one answering her. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡun7njXa2ew
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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...173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRaPzjO0M9X
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsLiUaAybe0
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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."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqjL0h3piTa
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"You want to finish what Slate started?"173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp3Pl4gQaID
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"Why not? Break them out. We're all in the position to help them."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ64v7bvoQnC
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbEqWgrpwSk
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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. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9mzhbUvIPF
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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."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuoJ6CpwP4y
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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."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFXT5wzuou5
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"What?"173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQLGymerfQM
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"Crashback."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAr2PfcJ1Yg
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"But that won't undo the last few years of-"173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7vYl97j7xU
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡywRv5qiRrH
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJPghjYmX82
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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."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcMkcNlJJ3v
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"Like his leadership skills?"173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXbJD2NSbcm
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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."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVehbS2R5tx
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"So how do we do that? His skills are still something that would be a spot target."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDdWaBm5tNi
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"Well, it's going to leave two holes in his head. They'll heal, but-"173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgpnKBlQqcK
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"Shit."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqh219D2fre
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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."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw9zC20r8aT
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"And what about the rest?"173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgN43vSLU6S
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"They're fine, they can just keep doing their sorting task."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrjVk3kJ54s
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ33kVKQYeW5
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjS4OpFCkEx
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV9TGIyuZi1
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡApas3iLvTE
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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. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtBie9yxzOL
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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. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx61XeYxvh1
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEkKwcXxFXz
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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. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0gHPjici8G
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnqCrsIxKma
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlS2krAIPW6
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLVkBS31SNa
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8CdzE26Fex
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"I wouldn't play with that if I were you. The last person who did was severed from me."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvPf4qOcAyW
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Says a voice, female. "Hello?" He calls out. No reply is heard.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIZgR40ii0y
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"Why am I here? What am I supposed to do?!" He yells out fustrated. "Who am I?"173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTDmLISjpze
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"Your heart knows who you are and you know what you are supposed to do."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuazLMMZ4qw
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPaF1RIsvsm
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDDh5C9RyOw
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQZ8SmqGDP1
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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-173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgFHZ6wnpyB
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And then his eyes widen, he sits up straight and looks them both in the eyes. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2m4hdpPKfM
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"Do you know who you are? Who we are?"173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbuAE7ucrEl
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"Slate. You both are the leaders, Ester and Mikey. What have you both done? You're monsters."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8wxNFim2Df
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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. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7QbgndEZzG
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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. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ9DIH0s0La
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We'll meet up with ya'll later outside. We'll run you a distraction."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtIwt2FgogT
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJfhiRAWSsH
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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. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzGVfKMRYOk
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPXN9p5xAeP
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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. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeKDzdHGLvl
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡURju04MTBK
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrdJCeIATGL
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1EVqdbW893
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We ran outside for help and the guards took her away, proably to triage."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjnH9QBImFS
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJycR6QWRFa
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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."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyerimTizLZ
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Kt2o509XF
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8TctiiSSee
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"Why are we doing this?" Gideon asks. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5qBqpRMKQL
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"You might understand once you've taken it."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtRmMV2kHuk
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Lyla and Gideon shrug, downing them. Paisley just looks at them. "Paisley."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyFbMJsN3NF
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"I don't need them, I'm not stupid like you all are."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6qRVHls6O5
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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."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYY2jDzqIrt
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCZDos72fLi
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgcxz09X99p
He roughly grips Murphy's arms pulling him back. "Woah, look at you." Murphy says, eyeing Slate up and down. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwPKgnPGn4Y
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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."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJxUYCUmlQG
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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. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDoXbyD5a6n
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So fly away, Slate."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwgMwQCt8kB
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"I can't, I need to find, Beth."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSknnnJljka
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"Uh, Infirmary I think. She was dragged out of the sorting room."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGpBNnkNADN
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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."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcOVzxZwNnr
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"Fucking psychotic bitches."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKuUHpADc6F
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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." 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0RJr2nfIyo
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt88V0cvEho
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBsdUYP7Jot
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe5eoURcljg
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiwmIQUrmX6
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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."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaPrsIhUTid
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlSRuKFFqfO
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"Uh, did Bethany come through here?" He asks a nurse hoping she won't realize isn't security.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkf2SSguhl4
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"Bethany?"173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj4JuJyROjH
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"Short blonde hair, blue eyes, she... cut heself."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNpjE9jl45J
"Uh, yep. She's in with a doctor now. Solayo's personal office I think."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ12MlPBTHLE
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"Are you okay? You don't look so good. The bandage on your head, is it bleeding?"173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQKCL8jhxo4
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4PIJNTIW4B
"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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFI2bgLWkHU
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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. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1VYEH2Ht5o
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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-173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkVteOxbai0
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"Solayo! Come in!" Solayo's walkie talkie picks up. Solayo sighs and answers while he preps a needle for Bethany. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwtiMPaDbhZ
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"What is it Grayson? I'm kind of busy right now playing doctor."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiUcoVVq9hm
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"You won't believe what I and Mikey just saw-"173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmR2eoMdRiM
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"What?"173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbbaVH42uTh
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"There is a bomb! Cloud NO joke rigged up a bomb."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHY1H8m5pCK
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"Come on-"173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfOWH3J2mng
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"We're going to evacuate everyone."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8adbDN1oYL
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"Grayson, we can't. This place is too large for that and there are to many people for that."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLt0not9O67
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"But-"173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqkSGQzyIxf
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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..."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8mZfwdQnWK
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"You can't be serious-"173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡabsQDhMRHw
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"It's that or everyone dies."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcg3YrSbRey
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"Okay, we'll try." And Grayson clicks off the channel.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr15DU8Npu2
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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. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa8qXqeaUDj
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"Slate, are you there?"173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5DUAz2Yobl
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"Cloud's rigged a bomb."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3OqtZU5kbK
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"How'd you know?!"173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmItCsL4jL6
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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."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTbnghRRi5i
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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."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡndh1Jp6F6s
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"Whatever, you'll handle it. I have to face off with Solayo right now, Bethany's with him!"173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi8jfLg3zRn
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"Shit. Why?"173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlRH2SL0knH
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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. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhT1pt6nzyE
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"What the hell are you doing here? How did you get that?!"173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYRofgNAxW9
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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. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUF9AZOirLx
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"You're diffrent. What happened to you?"173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy2w8SV3o7Q
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"Solayo, leave while you still can. There is a bomb."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRY1SAiLmbd
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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. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXvBtMs953a
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"Dip shit!" He yells, pulling on it. "Solayo! Solayo, come back!" 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPqloiDtktQ
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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. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLVqvvGMoEM
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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."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2j3oF0d8BC
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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-"173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl9rBW4UbmS
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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. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsTZvLmk5WF
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsvvxPYkM9O
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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. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ09SSo1CMr9
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb5kOsdSEMp
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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. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGOCHmYl4B3
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtKCQh9OBbN
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"Shit, we'll have to go back and go around another way if we can." Gideon curses. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHiX6mTl1D4
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuEXGJ1TGqd
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"I'm sorry, I don't want to alarm you. But we located Cloud, he rigged a bomb." 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb9dTLN9Avh
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She hands them her pass. "No! What about you? You can't leave us, Mum!" Lyla cries.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJI3dtH3vi8
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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?"173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡya3oQISlq2
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOppiA39Cqf
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2qsomu3fW9
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6XXzduRCAf
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8deJ1xjAy2
"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!"173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJuj48Z0Ijm
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"And maybe that's why you're not dead. Consider yourself lucky." Cloud speaks up and turns around leaving.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDVv3vlNclR
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1GtvBApRgj
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As they jump into the backseat, they see trucks everywhere driving around madly.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4u2GAyvUmI
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHU2xrY29zj
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZw9qjPL1KC
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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJhVSUuTBYj
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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. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi6SNr6sOpr
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv5yQS0jTnV
"How we feeling everybody?" He asks as he starts up the helicopter, blades rotating.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJBBXjtpI6f
"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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7gX0N3cGal
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"Three years."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRv3Wqy3s9T
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNxSkxxKOhK
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2NmQEBY0TJ
"Slate! What are you doing?! There are easier ways, we have a truck-" Mikey calls out.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQBsBLrLcrb
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAwB9IOBkeq
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTb4PP9Nvoj
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"Where are we goanna go?" Lyla asks. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPqo2rGrSOy
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"Anywhere WE want." Slate responds, pushing the helicopter forward and they fly off into the sun. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHyZ7meWCy3
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Down below, several trucks park outside far away enough from The Compound which is located inside an old mine.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQmCdjOMW7S
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡajn20JtrrQ
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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-"173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW359AUPgk9
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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. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVM14L3J2vi
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Before Solayo can say a word, it's a headshot and his knocked down. "Better now, buddy?" Mikey asks.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡggEWZo0vRo
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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."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVOJ1gjT0Bz
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ24wtwUjPG0
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Grayson and Mikey compose themselves, standing up now that Cloud is gone. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiEO22FXhNI
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"Where you think he goanna go?"173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDjHKqFNn58
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNTCoAHSyb0
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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?"173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfak4s1BVlB
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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. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWORmzVXmKt
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Gideon takes the map from her when she gasps for air, panicking and sitting upright, clutching her neck and arms.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEPkMODwjaJ
"You're okay, I bandaged them for you." He tells her and she relaxes, looking around confused where they are. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZa8hMvlp1T
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"You might want to give her one of the pills, Slate." Gideon tells him.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnI9tjzWxva
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB13HLHVvqR
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"Bad news, they're gone, Gid."173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9PdWAQmpql
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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. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0UjzIqI81T
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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. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLREm7EAU4Z
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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.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCGa3kBerqF
