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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ48XEzrg49P
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"Can we talk outside?"215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡobYiUKNPgc
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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?"215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH3xnsEjfky
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And she leaves, no one answering her. 215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7B4yYfGKSt
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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...215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGkrWDb5bTS
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwtP2IT9733
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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."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQUXbhfb6CK
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"You want to finish what Slate started?"215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnMbKiJnvVs
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"Why not? Break them out. We're all in the position to help them."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW2I9OqR70P
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBoMQnG4HEZ
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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. 215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5MQGZyfQd4
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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."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ36QkeONcUI
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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."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzjZ6m9ORRY
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"What?"215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3yJOaH9G4q
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"Crashback."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrrGwCJn3GQ
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"But that won't undo the last few years of-"215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoBCf7zeVyI
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIs2GXUWoJE
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPxOoRIcMwO
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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."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9LfxXB9R1Z
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"Like his leadership skills?"215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxa9TMY6vGH
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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."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiHsF3rh1M1
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"So how do we do that? His skills are still something that would be a spot target."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcGaA6U8TUy
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"Well, it's going to leave two holes in his head. They'll heal, but-"215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg7MCnlav1V
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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."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0VxKwBg5i2
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"And what about the rest?"215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0UTylipxJ7
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"They're fine, they can just keep doing their sorting task."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMR8ySmwZ45
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMybUFUtKPN
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT2BfSRXmXx
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiZAfoujWkF
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmlViE6qWKO
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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. 215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2n457ywqGP
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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. 215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrVF5gyvQG3
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEvOwfMnnYy
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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. 215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4uEGSwijOe
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf00ba44WU4
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlsv1c4BsrV
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ96BpyctZHP
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Ku0uZPXCM
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"I wouldn't play with that if I were you. The last person who did was severed from me."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSiH9OrYP0J
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Says a voice, female. "Hello?" He calls out. No reply is heard.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXPrpERAlzo
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"Why am I here? What am I supposed to do?!" He yells out fustrated. "Who am I?"215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHHPXP3yyLG
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"Your heart knows who you are and you know what you are supposed to do."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVbnFQqYMFY
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJKYboKCOpz
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsc7XwIlbLC
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYDifLsfS7i
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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-215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyoBZD3mNLR
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And then his eyes widen, he sits up straight and looks them both in the eyes. 215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrbK4fShXnH
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"Do you know who you are? Who we are?"215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVHwB47GYVQ
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"Slate. You both are the leaders, Ester and Mikey. What have you both done? You're monsters."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe2APGDz9pe
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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. 215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYD2wFjCCYE
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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. 215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQxzDQlGlHA
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We'll meet up with ya'll later outside. We'll run you a distraction."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ZmzAFtk71
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoREddYxmJ1
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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. 215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡROAYWrA1Zf
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd46bz19BDy
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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. 215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn9yxWbDg6M
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCr7384hq4u
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSJcJHFci1c
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP8iOJPYze9
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We ran outside for help and the guards took her away, proably to triage."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0qBQsqy2dW
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhU8eAG83vY
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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."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMZx6wYQ8g8
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Uk2e63PIU
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD1EvTeZWI9
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"Why are we doing this?" Gideon asks. 215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJflWLgf8Px
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"You might understand once you've taken it."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHiyxNX6Vtq
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Lyla and Gideon shrug, downing them. Paisley just looks at them. "Paisley."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ003sHibmlJ
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"I don't need them, I'm not stupid like you all are."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpHJqUnuam9
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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."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9IthykqkfR
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7DJs039USi
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDBneKPidOT
He roughly grips Murphy's arms pulling him back. "Woah, look at you." Murphy says, eyeing Slate up and down. 215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsDLakTmxHP
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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."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT4SClCq5Ab
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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. 215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMKMGGcSCPK
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So fly away, Slate."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLXCoM8o1LR
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"I can't, I need to find, Beth."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa8K07abQz8
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"Uh, Infirmary I think. She was dragged out of the sorting room."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEAdByiJmcd
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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."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDnXqmlmTcG
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"Fucking psychotic bitches."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtUWDRobHvF
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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." 215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXz8elryXtt
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj5izhpebM5
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8zIOQiUVik
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡijIpBCvKw4
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWxwWe5yCsS
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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."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb0GouMH7S2
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjLJxJ3SnTj
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"Uh, did Bethany come through here?" He asks a nurse hoping she won't realize isn't security.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrHGAtSsBZr
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"Bethany?"215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4RXfZV0YIm
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"Short blonde hair, blue eyes, she... cut heself."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsdMHbHlRsv
"Uh, yep. She's in with a doctor now. Solayo's personal office I think."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxk5645AjJE
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"Are you okay? You don't look so good. The bandage on your head, is it bleeding?"215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWseke2PjWp
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvjqTxMIEeI
"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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3qs8g8Lors
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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. 215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGmZRJnWEyL
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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-215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4LZb42ghmB
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"Solayo! Come in!" Solayo's walkie talkie picks up. Solayo sighs and answers while he preps a needle for Bethany. 215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTjzfkKjE6f
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"What is it Grayson? I'm kind of busy right now playing doctor."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFjUf46Hckq
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"You won't believe what I and Mikey just saw-"215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzyB2yp2w96
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"What?"215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5X0vpzfpTN
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"There is a bomb! Cloud NO joke rigged up a bomb."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1RLK6RhMoI
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"Come on-"215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡakpiamoLW3
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"We're going to evacuate everyone."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJgDybC09T4
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"Grayson, we can't. This place is too large for that and there are to many people for that."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi5aNeRJrlY
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"But-"215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ6p0wozojZ
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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..."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcA3tJzaDfE
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"You can't be serious-"215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ676oJaeJ3p
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"It's that or everyone dies."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSWDTWsULso
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"Okay, we'll try." And Grayson clicks off the channel.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkxNTiXkKzd
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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. 215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZXO1CR3ILE
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"Slate, are you there?"215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5NRdReN9Im
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"Cloud's rigged a bomb."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt3uMJJL4Y8
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"How'd you know?!"215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMSPBZA4KA1
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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."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwUtoVDGdNH
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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."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSQ6XGL8NAo
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"Whatever, you'll handle it. I have to face off with Solayo right now, Bethany's with him!"215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSOoUP6kTtK
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"Shit. Why?"215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdA9vIG144T
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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. 215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvZRZzs0zf4
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"What the hell are you doing here? How did you get that?!"215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJKz40ajafs
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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. 215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8YzfVKuIll
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"You're diffrent. What happened to you?"215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi8nRAJIim6
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"Solayo, leave while you still can. There is a bomb."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZKE4ozWPNB
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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. 215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3zMbQsy0Zn
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"Dip shit!" He yells, pulling on it. "Solayo! Solayo, come back!" 215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiYOcxADwBa
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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. 215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgjsy3PVSrb
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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."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaQV6SOxSKN
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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-"215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7KrhzZBodc
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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. 215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnh0u5lMCtw
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPSCnReUmJG
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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. 215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeQqwQheN5F
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNHzKjyMrIM
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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. 215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqLn3yEE51E
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz91vvkFUGk
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"Shit, we'll have to go back and go around another way if we can." Gideon curses. 215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs2LrOC7cPJ
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnIcpmtOTKA
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"I'm sorry, I don't want to alarm you. But we located Cloud, he rigged a bomb." 215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUsd0y56I2z
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She hands them her pass. "No! What about you? You can't leave us, Mum!" Lyla cries.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTeeyItFJ7m
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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?"215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAts5ouf5Me
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6dOjWOl45Z
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaqpIah43C6
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ97dTAYMKHN
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO1P3sasG4Y
"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!"215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGmQc81lq6d
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"And maybe that's why you're not dead. Consider yourself lucky." Cloud speaks up and turns around leaving.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLDU6uQ7RrU
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVmqajuZWhh
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As they jump into the backseat, they see trucks everywhere driving around madly.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBBI2SMUsAl
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEIUuIjUewu
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAW1mvNP481
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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrHRQGkfGGu
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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. 215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5H5IduJzus
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGy1wNduDUp
"How we feeling everybody?" He asks as he starts up the helicopter, blades rotating.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsovFGpdmvZ
"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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyBPLHCMTV1
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"Three years."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJAhEquQbxN
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwrZZfnaTm6
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeS7LJybY2A
"Slate! What are you doing?! There are easier ways, we have a truck-" Mikey calls out.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs1f0TKx4dH
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9OrNngc5MS
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡylaDzhRk96
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"Where are we goanna go?" Lyla asks. 215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsUIZbVJYtM
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"Anywhere WE want." Slate responds, pushing the helicopter forward and they fly off into the sun. 215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEvgqgY6zmj
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Down below, several trucks park outside far away enough from The Compound which is located inside an old mine.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfbpmkuqwet
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡORxzDdkNNX
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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-"215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOMNcsEM6k6
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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. 215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAaf4yNH3J4
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Before Solayo can say a word, it's a headshot and his knocked down. "Better now, buddy?" Mikey asks.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLYt9WZvmZJ
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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."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡokqF6ZRKJN
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpJOVwEzBfs
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Grayson and Mikey compose themselves, standing up now that Cloud is gone. 215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvUQo6nR4RA
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"Where you think he goanna go?"215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrhlaxddkLb
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaftmBwJ0E0
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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?"215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTDT6LUYIDi
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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. 215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgsaLnrZXuj
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Gideon takes the map from her when she gasps for air, panicking and sitting upright, clutching her neck and arms.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ZLN51tq9Y
"You're okay, I bandaged them for you." He tells her and she relaxes, looking around confused where they are. 215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ81YhBxQkiK
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"You might want to give her one of the pills, Slate." Gideon tells him.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyVOnYah4JF
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLZltyaYMSs
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"Bad news, they're gone, Gid."215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk4qx6lgLvT
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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. 215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaH8TCwvUnQ
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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. 215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp0pnz4rNBh
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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.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjiT4f6V2pe
