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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEUIbU9Ikl9
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"Can we talk outside?"145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQqGStUUNBM
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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?"145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVZZB7aeqoo
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And she leaves, no one answering her. 145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb0Jvu6sS0a
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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...145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQz3zycmgQm
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLnVVBLCWGn
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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."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLj29SgG43c
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"You want to finish what Slate started?"145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTwJPSTillo
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"Why not? Break them out. We're all in the position to help them."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡykxEvZxmtI
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgFvMyUOFdW
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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. 145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXXb8Xhp2x5
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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."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ZpOI6qXEf
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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."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrGJV0tqNBN
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"What?"145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaxybwu0TTR
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"Crashback."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwClXqAS3cC
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"But that won't undo the last few years of-"145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLFBfEAw8Ta
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlFhXR6J90p
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVPg9JflSwP
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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."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD9vnXd3bow
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"Like his leadership skills?"145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSwcOXFR6SI
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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."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVG66P1Ikav
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"So how do we do that? His skills are still something that would be a spot target."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLsqwoc4SEW
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"Well, it's going to leave two holes in his head. They'll heal, but-"145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡawGobuIivS
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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."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8gBdp5kcVp
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"And what about the rest?"145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8CU8yrfdc1
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"They're fine, they can just keep doing their sorting task."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5EAMUaDw6O
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1dHYaiyt9X
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUtqQKevPvF
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKbgEFgshiw
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiXuGXOBCqN
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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. 145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhI80qeeGUX
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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. 145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp1UFiTJaVx
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaUuSIuBqpH
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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. 145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxkinSt8aGO
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVCV9HR4tvX
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0nzjiNfoky
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwEiRS5eabA
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuNcYOb2gvZ
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"I wouldn't play with that if I were you. The last person who did was severed from me."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGX3FChDUna
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Says a voice, female. "Hello?" He calls out. No reply is heard.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnrFIN6dYBu
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"Why am I here? What am I supposed to do?!" He yells out fustrated. "Who am I?"145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG2ilaNuoVs
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"Your heart knows who you are and you know what you are supposed to do."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOi27e2vWfD
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCLspizJn2y
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc190ZhxFzi
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQzBIDU3Y8P
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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-145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡttubRd2ggi
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And then his eyes widen, he sits up straight and looks them both in the eyes. 145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz07mxuQHTA
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"Do you know who you are? Who we are?"145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGRNWSIDR93
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"Slate. You both are the leaders, Ester and Mikey. What have you both done? You're monsters."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJuHtXzTfZB
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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. 145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjmO8phEbBe
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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. 145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYJkp20xADN
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We'll meet up with ya'll later outside. We'll run you a distraction."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuOMXNt24go
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4ktBc2YlLQ
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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. 145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbejCenmUMT
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp3yds57sJ1
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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. 145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlB3Sf0StLn
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPdAAMLQ4S7
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTgkAhfUme0
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzaxORZe4DR
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We ran outside for help and the guards took her away, proably to triage."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNGeMoEpIIr
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡth1GgqdjKf
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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."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxVGQaglCOz
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqNiH5RFpkx
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5rD4MzIq41
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"Why are we doing this?" Gideon asks. 145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw6kLHlrhAU
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"You might understand once you've taken it."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5krujirdIl
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Lyla and Gideon shrug, downing them. Paisley just looks at them. "Paisley."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrPvGTgAJCk
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"I don't need them, I'm not stupid like you all are."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuafrtospK4
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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."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlVJgIOq7ez
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4PgMzcU1Nf
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE4H5IA25sR
He roughly grips Murphy's arms pulling him back. "Woah, look at you." Murphy says, eyeing Slate up and down. 145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdCG5KU29b6
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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."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvllkqXkDBs
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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. 145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQGo8Jj5ZVj
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So fly away, Slate."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE3KgCZtNpi
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"I can't, I need to find, Beth."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXahZVqUdd8
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"Uh, Infirmary I think. She was dragged out of the sorting room."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3xUIEbiWUa
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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."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw1kntz5xZv
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"Fucking psychotic bitches."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj9qgtPwGkv
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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." 145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBvoI5u4qMH
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsRVmsHnV50
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDNviREczYT
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEOeJfjUbos
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCEpbdEC42c
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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."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Unl9u5upJ
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPYei0pBtag
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"Uh, did Bethany come through here?" He asks a nurse hoping she won't realize isn't security.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnk9wBr4sao
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"Bethany?"145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLcUcw1i3Mk
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"Short blonde hair, blue eyes, she... cut heself."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ16ZXSKzUcr
"Uh, yep. She's in with a doctor now. Solayo's personal office I think."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4OekMVfJ9k
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"Shit."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2FaqNBg9dE
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"Are you okay? You don't look so good. The bandage on your head, is it bleeding?"145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5YbHlNyKzL
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZEwY5hQgwn
"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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYdviWe3Bj1
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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. 145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuMhkl7qwkG
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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-145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX1DFKNHqaH
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"Solayo! Come in!" Solayo's walkie talkie picks up. Solayo sighs and answers while he preps a needle for Bethany. 145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbgur2LxEOd
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"What is it Grayson? I'm kind of busy right now playing doctor."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpfwW2XZM4v
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"You won't believe what I and Mikey just saw-"145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlt1CwieRdZ
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"What?"145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8bicMWRn7w
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"There is a bomb! Cloud NO joke rigged up a bomb."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu01nHDhj8E
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"Come on-"145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIwIkHILpo8
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"We're going to evacuate everyone."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡghWqEwqbal
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"Grayson, we can't. This place is too large for that and there are to many people for that."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4jEr7sBrn7
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"But-"145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVYrzekJbDe
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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..."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK3pFqnohWm
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"You can't be serious-"145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOgx09TUidk
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"It's that or everyone dies."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlHgYim8ziJ
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"Okay, we'll try." And Grayson clicks off the channel.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYqiZfVL6Ru
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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. 145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdwgXLd1DKu
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"Slate, are you there?"145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXSt7z3WEyY
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"Cloud's rigged a bomb."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdd1uEwuhln
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"How'd you know?!"145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoOSXDkpWrW
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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."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRWlyzpsb9X
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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."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgPS6JrBve4
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"Whatever, you'll handle it. I have to face off with Solayo right now, Bethany's with him!"145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5FB76vTX5S
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"Shit. Why?"145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjWJjbgKHnE
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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. 145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡasgIMjGpUD
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"What the hell are you doing here? How did you get that?!"145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡro7OjAGOfw
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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. 145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ32GvHFpnZk
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"You're diffrent. What happened to you?"145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpLJ8sdIpFC
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"Solayo, leave while you still can. There is a bomb."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxYCUPWABVq
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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. 145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwqdBQdYD4E
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"Dip shit!" He yells, pulling on it. "Solayo! Solayo, come back!" 145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡck9QEsU2Fw
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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. 145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMSSO708myC
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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."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpZOXa9SWM3
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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-"145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8DEYZdRvNk
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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. 145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB2RlMSFMBS
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡemtrM8zYfN
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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. 145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpdLYJUpX3m
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRH0znPJN6h
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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. 145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWaesdTbGfj
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYGsF5je34A
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"Shit, we'll have to go back and go around another way if we can." Gideon curses. 145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ18IeXQaThW
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡStAuriou1c
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"I'm sorry, I don't want to alarm you. But we located Cloud, he rigged a bomb." 145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡseRrXhgf11
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She hands them her pass. "No! What about you? You can't leave us, Mum!" Lyla cries.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUeRF9v4z1O
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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?"145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3KezdT6cOb
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡerK8y1NLjh
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA3CA1ft1Lg
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNQYJLErdFL
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAoufdEFrZK
"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!"145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt4xULgIKVK
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"And maybe that's why you're not dead. Consider yourself lucky." Cloud speaks up and turns around leaving.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpgsbs1rmAh
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLMxHZnVrej
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As they jump into the backseat, they see trucks everywhere driving around madly.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlF7bldkCLs
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEuf3gPuKlp
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWVWBsxSobi
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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ22bJn5CmjT
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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. 145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJeJUzBivdm
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHfLtIZEk7c
"How we feeling everybody?" He asks as he starts up the helicopter, blades rotating.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYBVidHjRcn
"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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP7R6e4DP7z
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"Three years."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnNETDTc4WA
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6hgKP05Q6D
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUwU3D0q6TX
"Slate! What are you doing?! There are easier ways, we have a truck-" Mikey calls out.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyFHdvduLQU
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRTgTcUluvm
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI90X6IfBCG
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"Where are we goanna go?" Lyla asks. 145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1zQNqvFqQ4
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"Anywhere WE want." Slate responds, pushing the helicopter forward and they fly off into the sun. 145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvZjgbliMDE
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Down below, several trucks park outside far away enough from The Compound which is located inside an old mine.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrqHKpK3ytI
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ96j5TiMqmD
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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-"145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhqohI8gEnB
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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. 145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdAJFvVlWv1
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Before Solayo can say a word, it's a headshot and his knocked down. "Better now, buddy?" Mikey asks.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi9btdMYWeH
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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."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnlLjwI73nt
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7jm6queB4Q
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Grayson and Mikey compose themselves, standing up now that Cloud is gone. 145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRYl5prQv8w
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"Where you think he goanna go?"145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgzITprGJcG
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOiRxUYxux4
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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?"145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4f5qha9UF5
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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. 145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1fAUGQPj0F
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Gideon takes the map from her when she gasps for air, panicking and sitting upright, clutching her neck and arms.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgI8h5svZ3A
"You're okay, I bandaged them for you." He tells her and she relaxes, looking around confused where they are. 145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjtOsOKQmaW
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"You might want to give her one of the pills, Slate." Gideon tells him.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Jizzakgr9
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcK1uOef9tS
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"Bad news, they're gone, Gid."145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnpIWaypURM
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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. 145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEB9gDGvEPA
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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. 145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN1BLKO7eJ3
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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.145Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIcO4wdJiPM
