Slate, Lyla, Gideon, Paisley and Bethany at each of their own respective tables are packing tinned food into crates, aprons and hair nets donned. 175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHH5DwABvGj
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7i7U1cRjdf
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"Can we talk outside?"175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfkGxulsEQE
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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?"175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcGCSRPi3I4
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And she leaves, no one answering her. 175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKcMdEGhYeu
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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...175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO3zrIKTLB0
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ6ctLNaKqk
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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."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8FJ3QQMx44
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"You want to finish what Slate started?"175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuvObJ6Ilvx
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"Why not? Break them out. We're all in the position to help them."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡviw4b9LuV3
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl9EkvET7nA
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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. 175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7zINpN7RHX
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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."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzf83r1T1St
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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."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMvPu66FEc4
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"What?"175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPQJh0ZRrSG
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"Crashback."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3H67OQQS9I
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"But that won't undo the last few years of-"175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcGOVCgyW9J
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhBb9XqeA1M
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX4x079IV2N
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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."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1keK18uSeq
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"Like his leadership skills?"175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnNGyIDTgyy
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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."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTa2OBFpvTB
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"So how do we do that? His skills are still something that would be a spot target."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCEQSwLzZXK
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"Well, it's going to leave two holes in his head. They'll heal, but-"175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuz1h4x9RHq
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"Shit."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVsaVkJW5cY
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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."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbhpUg1D19i
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"And what about the rest?"175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWyl4LYcIl7
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"They're fine, they can just keep doing their sorting task."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQYMfu2DkoE
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqsechEH4c3
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ66AzWsWeZn
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOxmYJx6kDY
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ0fNAkyVWC
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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. 175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCHQrrD7MnM
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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. 175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHHImauEB2t
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmSfYGqWhfX
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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. 175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI65078HNL5
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV31HxWwww2
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjwJ2GWbsNw
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyXygo7U8ud
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqOPcCNGKMK
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"I wouldn't play with that if I were you. The last person who did was severed from me."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlS13HYSgSA
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Says a voice, female. "Hello?" He calls out. No reply is heard.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2kcjeyO4DN
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"Why am I here? What am I supposed to do?!" He yells out fustrated. "Who am I?"175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkdwN00m0MQ
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"Your heart knows who you are and you know what you are supposed to do."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUalRrtFvfi
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrqcjFBcipp
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs6h9haBCek
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡddOGnUv2U5
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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-175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTUobQ2faP6
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And then his eyes widen, he sits up straight and looks them both in the eyes. 175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRVfaAaRLuD
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"Do you know who you are? Who we are?"175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeQNEbsDyJL
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"Slate. You both are the leaders, Ester and Mikey. What have you both done? You're monsters."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxgQTBaforI
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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. 175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVTrJvCcwuY
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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. 175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxar4tOmDCn
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We'll meet up with ya'll later outside. We'll run you a distraction."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsdpj0pCidd
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ25l4gFwaCx
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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. 175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9D5ivGzPSU
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSXngZpvWkm
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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. 175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkYAA98c9yW
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRe6xbDXbah
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRT4O8I8kp8
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSjkUoiaiBU
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We ran outside for help and the guards took her away, proably to triage."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIEUPGGV5PS
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCxq0HMQrO5
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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."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMxw8t76Gap
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKeQwuUlxjk
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡONcqtxuCKm
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"Why are we doing this?" Gideon asks. 175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxPbfsIRB2q
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"You might understand once you've taken it."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfbc9UGd45i
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Lyla and Gideon shrug, downing them. Paisley just looks at them. "Paisley."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaYgU56xnXf
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"I don't need them, I'm not stupid like you all are."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj9jJVRTdNV
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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."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNNuD3BfrWM
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCeZhVtFqIs
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJYgfIg7jq5
He roughly grips Murphy's arms pulling him back. "Woah, look at you." Murphy says, eyeing Slate up and down. 175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuD28m6AgYk
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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."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiOBuj4uIqg
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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. 175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHLsoRtpLyh
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So fly away, Slate."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc4PIonYDth
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"I can't, I need to find, Beth."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUY9JFhALZj
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"Uh, Infirmary I think. She was dragged out of the sorting room."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCmyUs7n0Gv
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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."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcQ6mR5vxU2
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"Fucking psychotic bitches."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcaU8r7k4hd
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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." 175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsYrFZlCRun
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO5VjZcGS8b
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBLx32XybRd
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCMlyvmDSeb
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1deoJruafV
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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."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE4J9nK3czi
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgSSNXB5che
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"Uh, did Bethany come through here?" He asks a nurse hoping she won't realize isn't security.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdQXM7DWt44
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"Bethany?"175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTAjYkC0991
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"Short blonde hair, blue eyes, she... cut heself."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn2RBfYXOqa
"Uh, yep. She's in with a doctor now. Solayo's personal office I think."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq86YW6fI5g
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"Shit."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJMaxTskCip
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"Are you okay? You don't look so good. The bandage on your head, is it bleeding?"175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb67iChJ6xi
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEO1FOiOgss
"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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsJSt0O9fs1
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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. 175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡogXNinf6yl
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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-175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyT2JYvRecy
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"Solayo! Come in!" Solayo's walkie talkie picks up. Solayo sighs and answers while he preps a needle for Bethany. 175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdWzhYonkPn
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"What is it Grayson? I'm kind of busy right now playing doctor."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUV1sWr6kyy
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"You won't believe what I and Mikey just saw-"175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSyAmjNAUd1
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"What?"175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv2grdzkwiI
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"There is a bomb! Cloud NO joke rigged up a bomb."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoBZ0FjVNFG
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"Come on-"175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0GFDWGYo7i
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"We're going to evacuate everyone."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ4YFokHoKp
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"Grayson, we can't. This place is too large for that and there are to many people for that."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcmykSgLfIh
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"But-"175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5VPmSHYZfj
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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..."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ1ZaFyGHxw
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"You can't be serious-"175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJWdDu5ki2c
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"It's that or everyone dies."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEKb00CQcww
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"Okay, we'll try." And Grayson clicks off the channel.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpOOAgrZVQb
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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. 175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7BNDhR7COe
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"Slate, are you there?"175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5f2i2PxGgy
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"Cloud's rigged a bomb."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo5c9S9MNBG
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"How'd you know?!"175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkqiTv7CJgh
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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."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ6RIAYRQS2
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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."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDr4kO9tbRH
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"Whatever, you'll handle it. I have to face off with Solayo right now, Bethany's with him!"175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSlpm6HdMT2
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"Shit. Why?"175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuVZjiqwLJP
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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. 175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpdQaNKQlFy
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"What the hell are you doing here? How did you get that?!"175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFLKK5oSP4X
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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. 175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ82PsmSLB9
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"You're diffrent. What happened to you?"175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4fN4nhksvV
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"Solayo, leave while you still can. There is a bomb."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWCCIvlM7p4
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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. 175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB7ZdF4whqT
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"Dip shit!" He yells, pulling on it. "Solayo! Solayo, come back!" 175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDLnk7kNWdA
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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. 175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyHoLJTvDWR
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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."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe6PeHEwkBj
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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-"175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKzzwj35Yf5
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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. 175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN2R2jG7Iei
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUK7Tk0AAq5
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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. 175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSoxoL0cbzP
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLc0AyNHnUv
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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. 175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUxAPBcSpBH
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBIZOMrwjmR
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"Shit, we'll have to go back and go around another way if we can." Gideon curses. 175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwpkMPWxIYo
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlysoYurEJV
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"I'm sorry, I don't want to alarm you. But we located Cloud, he rigged a bomb." 175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOENwv2ShDb
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She hands them her pass. "No! What about you? You can't leave us, Mum!" Lyla cries.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ79OPO7ecEB
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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?"175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjVmEgYGuWL
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhCvYwswXsA
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7aGdoX9Pse
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡauM8KkP3m2
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6x2yGm8sRA
"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!"175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvpDx13WpYE
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"And maybe that's why you're not dead. Consider yourself lucky." Cloud speaks up and turns around leaving.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1oyr8967kk
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeRRRn5aI89
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As they jump into the backseat, they see trucks everywhere driving around madly.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF0VmqNJ4VK
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfmThywp9Py
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiNm45HEzr9
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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCRLoct9T9l
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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. 175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgYsRazHiD1
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFc4mhHhQLE
"How we feeling everybody?" He asks as he starts up the helicopter, blades rotating.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1hGYMLoaBg
"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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡehxcQRduoO
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"Three years."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBHplNbY0A9
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCFUPwLOk9J
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPxYdlsMdsG
"Slate! What are you doing?! There are easier ways, we have a truck-" Mikey calls out.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLWZuiXU81I
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ2lZUibhHp
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjdTtJ5ITKE
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"Where are we goanna go?" Lyla asks. 175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgtIqBHPTQo
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"Anywhere WE want." Slate responds, pushing the helicopter forward and they fly off into the sun. 175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLIkdwMMkA7
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Down below, several trucks park outside far away enough from The Compound which is located inside an old mine.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhcoHna1HsK
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4bXWaFR0i9
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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-"175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Zi63HxpQf
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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. 175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4vwzJwrApA
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Before Solayo can say a word, it's a headshot and his knocked down. "Better now, buddy?" Mikey asks.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyAwBSsq16r
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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."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk21pqkTUyn
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAVtnitw3C7
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Grayson and Mikey compose themselves, standing up now that Cloud is gone. 175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡae4NTnHSTb
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"Where you think he goanna go?"175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYvjfkJbNyf
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Aqto2aybp
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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?"175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwH64GbKeOt
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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. 175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzaSLncA18I
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Gideon takes the map from her when she gasps for air, panicking and sitting upright, clutching her neck and arms.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZpnBihQ3Be
"You're okay, I bandaged them for you." He tells her and she relaxes, looking around confused where they are. 175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk4Xu4cIXrE
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"You might want to give her one of the pills, Slate." Gideon tells him.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZJTO2iEoec
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfQjnzNFHpR
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"Bad news, they're gone, Gid."175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDkOrm7xLSZ
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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. 175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT4ivkWtDnD
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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. 175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIaIEk6kRZV
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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.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5tZNxSCoYY
