Slate, Lyla, Gideon, Paisley and Bethany at each of their own respective tables are packing tinned food into crates, aprons and hair nets donned. 179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvlyKXp3inh
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtIt9jg8i11
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"Can we talk outside?"179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHzGVslFcX0
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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?"179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLy1vBSaTWh
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And she leaves, no one answering her. 179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ5M3lGqrwp
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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...179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbYFZEoyb4g
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJBiV03jd6d
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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."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvcXPpGBgVd
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"You want to finish what Slate started?"179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡey8vvH5eYE
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"Why not? Break them out. We're all in the position to help them."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZeePBawc7h
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKNcWEkkkqE
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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. 179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7tc8SxouUF
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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."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRhnN13d4y6
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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."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9s1J8KOHDJ
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"What?"179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW9bTKkw3Xi
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"Crashback."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJM8q2OhgGI
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"But that won't undo the last few years of-"179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjs6cN3Qhbb
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7m5m5YakPL
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUSL3xPyY7W
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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."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8DPbToxeBJ
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"Like his leadership skills?"179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi0mFNeqoeP
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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."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKGeVHJRhu4
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"So how do we do that? His skills are still something that would be a spot target."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOhmE4QTwHm
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"Well, it's going to leave two holes in his head. They'll heal, but-"179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Czk3m4Jv1
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"Shit."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcJ5rpazl2F
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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."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2kONXjKcMr
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"And what about the rest?"179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3DRLbJ5ZV4
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"They're fine, they can just keep doing their sorting task."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUd3KKtcWqr
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbsWG7ESCYs
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwzQKmBnlys
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPl9AsJqOML
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyHfZCinZ4L
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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. 179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgbJSZsA11p
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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. 179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHHV2DaOh72
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGCCv3Ofiry
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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. 179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlZrG6nxh36
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiphTho7Oxp
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6P1sbC4vgh
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4bwJHWxpAM
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt0BOjPx146
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"I wouldn't play with that if I were you. The last person who did was severed from me."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCgshIPsvz2
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Says a voice, female. "Hello?" He calls out. No reply is heard.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg3GNTvmsX8
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"Why am I here? What am I supposed to do?!" He yells out fustrated. "Who am I?"179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv8vkYvfQ99
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"Your heart knows who you are and you know what you are supposed to do."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZtxQy1cksf
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFkdcXEU1ZA
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY9HX3VoRNF
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnyzW6mwyI3
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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-179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXC6kAboESY
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And then his eyes widen, he sits up straight and looks them both in the eyes. 179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc0mEQeGDOw
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"Do you know who you are? Who we are?"179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2g0hVgLQld
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"Slate. You both are the leaders, Ester and Mikey. What have you both done? You're monsters."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4QcsELTuUK
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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. 179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDfqCS9mn4Q
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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. 179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYvuO5dsagR
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We'll meet up with ya'll later outside. We'll run you a distraction."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4TxiyLtElD
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡymxKG9bUrG
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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. 179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpRs3Ilq43w
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ068X5afjs8
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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. 179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJJYqKEAOKP
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGWxNcEfVQL
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGXVCyzKqFR
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSUaXbA1AFB
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We ran outside for help and the guards took her away, proably to triage."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW1BnZg5GRT
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9IyIRyGoHk
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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."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeXb7WPu0uO
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYDKbSAWOgr
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡufq5cMvz02
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"Why are we doing this?" Gideon asks. 179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEF66qajE5a
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"You might understand once you've taken it."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYXc0Oy76JT
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Lyla and Gideon shrug, downing them. Paisley just looks at them. "Paisley."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNmtrg93u4v
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"I don't need them, I'm not stupid like you all are."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8gsXpOHmKE
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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."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7LugzAvIFg
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNdhWrPXwEV
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwH6PNzqw13
He roughly grips Murphy's arms pulling him back. "Woah, look at you." Murphy says, eyeing Slate up and down. 179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6DtrfGfF4R
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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."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7JEPvYvI08
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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. 179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0EgGJgxmGH
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So fly away, Slate."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHJRypLtcHE
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"I can't, I need to find, Beth."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPQfVnpEriz
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"Uh, Infirmary I think. She was dragged out of the sorting room."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBURJiooZp4
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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."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ06ZuckyF54
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"Fucking psychotic bitches."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhM6qRV8cTL
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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." 179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPv7BYKj7fE
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzoITUrQmfS
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0E2Z04AKvt
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUkGdrBAthQ
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ136RgQGma2
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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."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6GQgFjbsDu
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE6qQQpklsh
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"Uh, did Bethany come through here?" He asks a nurse hoping she won't realize isn't security.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5QEADs2STT
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"Bethany?"179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRd7iXQj0gP
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"Short blonde hair, blue eyes, she... cut heself."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcsa6yxG16r
"Uh, yep. She's in with a doctor now. Solayo's personal office I think."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCazMVtI0rA
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"Are you okay? You don't look so good. The bandage on your head, is it bleeding?"179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzpO8hTvmIS
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkXbPMCF2lG
"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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡexa7ySaMXJ
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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. 179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsXyTsVFyFd
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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-179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXtQGmB4thR
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"Solayo! Come in!" Solayo's walkie talkie picks up. Solayo sighs and answers while he preps a needle for Bethany. 179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUxwV73JTQb
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"What is it Grayson? I'm kind of busy right now playing doctor."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmaWxNtHK1y
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"You won't believe what I and Mikey just saw-"179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMNh147jSZG
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"What?"179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUR8JvkZ2zp
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"There is a bomb! Cloud NO joke rigged up a bomb."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBRMg9KpDnx
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"Come on-"179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLuk19lk8vs
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"We're going to evacuate everyone."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJGtyidhaJM
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"Grayson, we can't. This place is too large for that and there are to many people for that."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsKB6FAnWzl
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"But-"179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfMUx8FuXYi
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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..."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQx5ifZ2ngy
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"You can't be serious-"179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIZUIBrXcDX
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"It's that or everyone dies."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuctFcNfann
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"Okay, we'll try." And Grayson clicks off the channel.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEuuwIFm5VS
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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. 179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRSAHGyihUh
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"Slate, are you there?"179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb9kOg2hR0a
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"Cloud's rigged a bomb."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc1ZrArlvCR
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"How'd you know?!"179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoKo3jHlbSs
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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."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYP3lyZFCW8
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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."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwaGOrySDSj
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"Whatever, you'll handle it. I have to face off with Solayo right now, Bethany's with him!"179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9hRkPjgy7t
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"Shit. Why?"179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0jAV1WQYJS
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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. 179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBfI0nHArxu
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"What the hell are you doing here? How did you get that?!"179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ18AN5We1VA
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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. 179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPFGUufQzdM
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"You're diffrent. What happened to you?"179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqWd1ViHWwi
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"Solayo, leave while you still can. There is a bomb."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNKzBWe7SZt
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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. 179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6dfJtlOUIa
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"Dip shit!" He yells, pulling on it. "Solayo! Solayo, come back!" 179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJsddM4E8V6
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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. 179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4JUsOIRms0
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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."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZDVNGqurWt
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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-"179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKQ5jz89t38
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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. 179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaXdWen3k7i
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ24F6aNlPiJ
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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. 179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvmaImbWATu
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWcwSORib9J
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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. 179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkRisPqx8Ai
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlA4FSLwo9o
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"Shit, we'll have to go back and go around another way if we can." Gideon curses. 179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd2oH7QeoAG
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNS6yjiqL1K
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"I'm sorry, I don't want to alarm you. But we located Cloud, he rigged a bomb." 179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhkNV1DL7Ga
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She hands them her pass. "No! What about you? You can't leave us, Mum!" Lyla cries.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1pk73AUsuy
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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?"179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeGu68EBqaq
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCOyy6aLdBR
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3uL6suFJQI
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqGvkdrF6pq
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaJKtNVKGbF
"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!"179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrtkm4C2AM3
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"And maybe that's why you're not dead. Consider yourself lucky." Cloud speaks up and turns around leaving.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPFdxLdT78J
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeIvffiH6JW
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As they jump into the backseat, they see trucks everywhere driving around madly.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTPTE1XgOvu
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3l7ZmM5KrT
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxOAJHKLxbo
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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPPEAHLEbRY
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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. 179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCrsqrjTspU
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV61qlxwhHH
"How we feeling everybody?" He asks as he starts up the helicopter, blades rotating.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1u410zXvi2
"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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡte9GuQYatM
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"Three years."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfkJabN4ue7
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWjTRvt89S5
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ58PSEpZW3l
"Slate! What are you doing?! There are easier ways, we have a truck-" Mikey calls out.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7kneUopYGA
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCQYoMo362t
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI4jNKfvROX
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"Where are we goanna go?" Lyla asks. 179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Q8EaZ8HNV
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"Anywhere WE want." Slate responds, pushing the helicopter forward and they fly off into the sun. 179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdowDnkosgv
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Down below, several trucks park outside far away enough from The Compound which is located inside an old mine.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6mxCuzjRli
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2dekgakVpq
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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-"179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTx632hGYjg
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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. 179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp6ruGiEMUr
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Before Solayo can say a word, it's a headshot and his knocked down. "Better now, buddy?" Mikey asks.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeqJFnCpdO8
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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."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVMF78FcZkv
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ530q6Y0sM4
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Grayson and Mikey compose themselves, standing up now that Cloud is gone. 179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4SiYKryw8n
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"Where you think he goanna go?"179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡviJnKiSO0I
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBFHmqJUaXU
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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?"179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMpndHH4ERM
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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. 179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl100sRbTvq
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Gideon takes the map from her when she gasps for air, panicking and sitting upright, clutching her neck and arms.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡslR0nlDLnV
"You're okay, I bandaged them for you." He tells her and she relaxes, looking around confused where they are. 179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4AVyJcxdi9
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"You might want to give her one of the pills, Slate." Gideon tells him.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi9QkWI1JxO
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEXeEBw3ABD
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"Bad news, they're gone, Gid."179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhnjONreO6z
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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. 179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpRBHHms86Q
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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. 179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG3uafEJjm8
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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.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAoJo6e7Noj
