Slate, Lyla, Gideon, Paisley and Bethany at each of their own respective tables are packing tinned food into crates, aprons and hair nets donned. 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXrY7TAv1s5
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhLCoF5T2C6
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"Can we talk outside?"178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaak2xq7mPB
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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?"178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbuN0XtZ6uy
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And she leaves, no one answering her. 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVfaft7rSls
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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...178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU7RqI7Hte6
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlJQN9abUo8
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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."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAFE5dObvUA
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"You want to finish what Slate started?"178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyaopthJ80e
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"Why not? Break them out. We're all in the position to help them."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXq41oQ8nz8
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx4gsHyn93j
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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. 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYrucw0MNRB
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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."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdcgipoJxhY
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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."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKIAFjCk1Xs
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"What?"178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7xsYf6n6qW
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"Crashback."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiyvM0RC7Bl
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"But that won't undo the last few years of-"178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUV43sgNLuf
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOeAj7e1xCs
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFwINjIHbgx
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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."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKFpj1BdZvb
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"Like his leadership skills?"178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS5UDDcUApE
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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."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfpbE1fjJRW
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"So how do we do that? His skills are still something that would be a spot target."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFABr9Pxvsj
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"Well, it's going to leave two holes in his head. They'll heal, but-"178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEhE6yrDG51
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"Shit."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUJ8TegBK0y
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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."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMTqoSf7YB2
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"And what about the rest?"178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsklmntmfwd
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"They're fine, they can just keep doing their sorting task."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNDwUWaNStW
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡenRRRYdcFy
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNHJbqGEbbu
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7aD4fC8hxR
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnY7kmAzvGC
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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. 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUpLOjgaZ6U
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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. 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjmV9JcydNx
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZWQIfjwzHf
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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. 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA6HCdKBEEk
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3MVMfqvcxO
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ12gzjyIhxM
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYDLvMKnnCw
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEtjGlESTQH
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"I wouldn't play with that if I were you. The last person who did was severed from me."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnRTa3Ua4VD
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Says a voice, female. "Hello?" He calls out. No reply is heard.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP2D2BFo9JD
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"Why am I here? What am I supposed to do?!" He yells out fustrated. "Who am I?"178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKw6h87ukQq
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"Your heart knows who you are and you know what you are supposed to do."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUdJ1FOQFwD
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQcqubmrd7g
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk77RJLhOVA
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGgNbr0Clhu
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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-178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqPveEpKFVB
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And then his eyes widen, he sits up straight and looks them both in the eyes. 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPeHWIeVz8W
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"Do you know who you are? Who we are?"178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO1fMy1yDPP
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"Slate. You both are the leaders, Ester and Mikey. What have you both done? You're monsters."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ309UCcgoT
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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. 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqAfnck4Qai
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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. 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeaUyB58wy7
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We'll meet up with ya'll later outside. We'll run you a distraction."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZsk99zDieD
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrI2CFBnXsa
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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. 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡulG4vue2gu
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNkt2Wz4rlu
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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. 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0kGvx4bw47
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMkbM3OzAzb
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Jf2Qqm0kK
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj3jreszyiB
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We ran outside for help and the guards took her away, proably to triage."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFZ7JxZIObf
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUAWN5WwQrN
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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."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNYvosteR3Z
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQCViGgiT63
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9C46p2bRZZ
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"Why are we doing this?" Gideon asks. 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl42fM8d03u
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"You might understand once you've taken it."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtINMmCfAxG
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Lyla and Gideon shrug, downing them. Paisley just looks at them. "Paisley."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBkxl5Jwbnd
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"I don't need them, I'm not stupid like you all are."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuSywiF0juX
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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."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAqvlLajvUH
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtKpbgdhFRL
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSQPAot8Rvv
He roughly grips Murphy's arms pulling him back. "Woah, look at you." Murphy says, eyeing Slate up and down. 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzaRAkzKM9V
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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."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiUtaEsFO98
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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. 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIA3a8inNZ5
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So fly away, Slate."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRIRGitEhiK
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"I can't, I need to find, Beth."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyQysSsYhJR
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"Uh, Infirmary I think. She was dragged out of the sorting room."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8dCzahuU2F
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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."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVBmvj2xGs6
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"Fucking psychotic bitches."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmwRi4MipQz
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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." 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCUYcxQ44XK
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvLjfb9Bpio
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoz7No0iN3d
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxE5viaXlAw
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWfYUs2qGco
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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."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp0H61ZObF9
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgXHwuIJLaU
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"Uh, did Bethany come through here?" He asks a nurse hoping she won't realize isn't security.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGz6N6v5Zos
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"Bethany?"178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVDCFkgVVIS
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"Short blonde hair, blue eyes, she... cut heself."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBPNITl3QhT
"Uh, yep. She's in with a doctor now. Solayo's personal office I think."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2nZEzyEQJN
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"Shit."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPbNOAVugwx
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"Are you okay? You don't look so good. The bandage on your head, is it bleeding?"178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrHblHCMMaQ
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc8ONEde5KM
"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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhYmBOOWrju
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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. 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhgq86nBOM9
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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-178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFiyCnALwa1
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"Solayo! Come in!" Solayo's walkie talkie picks up. Solayo sighs and answers while he preps a needle for Bethany. 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡehsr0gT4kj
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"What is it Grayson? I'm kind of busy right now playing doctor."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtlkDylErBQ
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"You won't believe what I and Mikey just saw-"178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAtfNWNalBj
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"What?"178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbDgJNXUGX1
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"There is a bomb! Cloud NO joke rigged up a bomb."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdODLfUkrge
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"Come on-"178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdZObRPbJZL
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"We're going to evacuate everyone."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhdrs3tJqaD
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"Grayson, we can't. This place is too large for that and there are to many people for that."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvH00bH9T0m
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"But-"178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwIW6t6LKCM
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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..."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP0VUc1Whnm
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"You can't be serious-"178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5qDxPDHOlc
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"It's that or everyone dies."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTB8pesjIkY
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"Okay, we'll try." And Grayson clicks off the channel.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2mV4XTxZNE
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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. 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdRYQCfMh0o
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"Slate, are you there?"178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGY5350FDsh
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"Cloud's rigged a bomb."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8HhxWMUzYQ
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"How'd you know?!"178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIi43ASDXSU
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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."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAdDQwmSbEG
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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."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRRiDaVnqGN
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"Whatever, you'll handle it. I have to face off with Solayo right now, Bethany's with him!"178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ595KaE79sr
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"Shit. Why?"178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhjVGZU0xUC
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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. 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ531JGW4gHZ
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"What the hell are you doing here? How did you get that?!"178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUSgtWvu36v
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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. 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOrVeRXROMb
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"You're diffrent. What happened to you?"178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAtEwJ9CvmP
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"Solayo, leave while you still can. There is a bomb."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHJzpiM7uGU
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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. 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqHxCvnMo22
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"Dip shit!" He yells, pulling on it. "Solayo! Solayo, come back!" 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz8Hiznuj3K
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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. 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHYGZymNB1Z
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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."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJLppgcCCDJ
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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-"178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWuWcG0XdI4
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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. 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoBhEC6005b
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbGEJb0bzoU
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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. 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYTxIbItuWR
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ44h2sQs9d
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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. 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi3bdlej887
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡncaK8ysFlY
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"Shit, we'll have to go back and go around another way if we can." Gideon curses. 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxzRUF1fZWh
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhlIZt6SV9e
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"I'm sorry, I don't want to alarm you. But we located Cloud, he rigged a bomb." 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzsBtE5bud7
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She hands them her pass. "No! What about you? You can't leave us, Mum!" Lyla cries.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy5hcGAEheY
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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?"178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaGrRItDBMj
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVcib6T0BFd
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXrms5tRYJL
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCFS5xZ3vHw
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF45GxDeTDT
"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!"178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWKZgkptPRt
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"And maybe that's why you're not dead. Consider yourself lucky." Cloud speaks up and turns around leaving.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqCwzO8PXpE
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFTCTeyCP05
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As they jump into the backseat, they see trucks everywhere driving around madly.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4q2AsbQj1D
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwfwY6s91gq
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbyiy0k6h6m
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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFjSKpNjLyt
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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. 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzErnBeVnaA
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmcsxtCKoKd
"How we feeling everybody?" He asks as he starts up the helicopter, blades rotating.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwvWdMsM6yP
"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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGTkuOEl8r4
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"Three years."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6D1QDoXe0X
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrrLq3BOEYH
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡChKRtU8Or3
"Slate! What are you doing?! There are easier ways, we have a truck-" Mikey calls out.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX3zKnHfu1n
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1A7JOjkv97
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW93e3HWyhp
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"Where are we goanna go?" Lyla asks. 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ06cTpL8sM2
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"Anywhere WE want." Slate responds, pushing the helicopter forward and they fly off into the sun. 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxmlLvyqKLP
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Down below, several trucks park outside far away enough from The Compound which is located inside an old mine.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHWaon9Y4aR
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuH0KS2tVN1
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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-"178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1tq38029ex
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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. 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8mK85ZzEQO
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Before Solayo can say a word, it's a headshot and his knocked down. "Better now, buddy?" Mikey asks.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdjBjYKvnQh
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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."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGICb7KKhRu
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj5QpXWEm3G
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Grayson and Mikey compose themselves, standing up now that Cloud is gone. 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdmWtb3Wo7u
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"Where you think he goanna go?"178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG6zwFffoc1
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY0ibZE3TOu
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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?"178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbI3gXFEPB4
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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. 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtYkFZzDdqN
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Gideon takes the map from her when she gasps for air, panicking and sitting upright, clutching her neck and arms.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFV7tnySPUL
"You're okay, I bandaged them for you." He tells her and she relaxes, looking around confused where they are. 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu34aq2ynmp
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"You might want to give her one of the pills, Slate." Gideon tells him.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTU0K7tz2k4
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHvGxIj49hS
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"Bad news, they're gone, Gid."178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx0iBhxIbiQ
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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. 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8FhxYezdKC
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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. 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyVHQA4jkWp
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFMIgWQ4Zn3
