Slate, Lyla, Gideon, Paisley and Bethany at each of their own respective tables are packing tinned food into crates, aprons and hair nets donned. 124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOSxcfH8Una
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcnBU4YOn22
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"Can we talk outside?"124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm7eZV5yD63
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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?"124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI0DGFEh9Kf
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And she leaves, no one answering her. 124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtiydcDIRH8
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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...124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Rb9ML3B88
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt8Vhzsf1nB
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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."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzDSZqIaL5U
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"You want to finish what Slate started?"124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgDnvtkZynl
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"Why not? Break them out. We're all in the position to help them."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpNAFd9cIjr
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ92XTci6dIp
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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. 124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdVWkaSQ9EC
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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."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡigwRDi1Vc4
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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."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOvpQwuQ4cU
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"What?"124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡET4wAMJCYX
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"Crashback."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaIL99IgjD1
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"But that won't undo the last few years of-"124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6dtfUNXI6v
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKSEtSojWvP
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡScPZRjDdLd
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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."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjv73OMnXHt
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"Like his leadership skills?"124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs2Fq9qNN73
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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."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡViCzTFItkz
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"So how do we do that? His skills are still something that would be a spot target."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ17115kCcUy
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"Well, it's going to leave two holes in his head. They'll heal, but-"124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡroGFnWi0op
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"Shit."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ04QwALGxUH
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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."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxz8Df0AsPH
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"And what about the rest?"124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgMJAnnbH7X
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"They're fine, they can just keep doing their sorting task."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Y5PWbRYhA
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJNbdWTQT9K
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHjONey2Fmd
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡby0FAdYN6G
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl4BGtgSgP9
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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. 124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCL6D2n0XS1
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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. 124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQU6QRZwyGT
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF8eEESKfbJ
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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. 124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoF7087xzH9
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrUqYPbwVWU
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNzuOPRuenu
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzaD3MhZqFl
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDUxKzKnlAz
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"I wouldn't play with that if I were you. The last person who did was severed from me."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF75QC5t5IK
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Says a voice, female. "Hello?" He calls out. No reply is heard.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjU1WfBwrro
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"Why am I here? What am I supposed to do?!" He yells out fustrated. "Who am I?"124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ZpNB5l5Hl
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"Your heart knows who you are and you know what you are supposed to do."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbkI3VHqk8x
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhVX0pX9TTv
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG53NmAFCQc
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOqTjBvzdD8
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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-124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD5X5HbyahP
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And then his eyes widen, he sits up straight and looks them both in the eyes. 124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV4sjO1u6E7
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"Do you know who you are? Who we are?"124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡulZ1hpCBOt
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"Slate. You both are the leaders, Ester and Mikey. What have you both done? You're monsters."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvkhW7KAmkG
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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. 124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtmHRqjcygB
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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. 124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ72XiDGKEiD
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We'll meet up with ya'll later outside. We'll run you a distraction."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1UyA2kRuLb
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRfoG3igxQW
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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. 124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsgg6qKRIFR
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsviJuPJrGf
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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. 124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNj9bQ3dQPN
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMKRThhJMeL
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsmxfXxe2Qi
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEC7TmNMQzL
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We ran outside for help and the guards took her away, proably to triage."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo6ZUsB8VET
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLpySKnDWeB
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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."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGBF6PC08z1
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0jxsIOjbiA
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMxHhrEVsao
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"Why are we doing this?" Gideon asks. 124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfDLMkhmPQZ
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"You might understand once you've taken it."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMCMcKfQFH0
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Lyla and Gideon shrug, downing them. Paisley just looks at them. "Paisley."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyqzd5X8hzX
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"I don't need them, I'm not stupid like you all are."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoKLmJfPuOJ
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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."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWoq0DxQyQH
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYzj2IKTCO2
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1jppgkzIXe
He roughly grips Murphy's arms pulling him back. "Woah, look at you." Murphy says, eyeing Slate up and down. 124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5EdqdS5TDo
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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."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrRo7shTuvp
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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. 124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGw05Q3GapG
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So fly away, Slate."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlZ5LFTp3Ji
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"I can't, I need to find, Beth."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLOQlytt1BQ
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"Uh, Infirmary I think. She was dragged out of the sorting room."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvgQCUt9FQ3
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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."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ18s4dJRtDk
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"Fucking psychotic bitches."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqXw2Z7uQlL
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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." 124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA2CGTHiJz0
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpRxHThqHy3
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI5ROUpskhY
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrE34aeUiOT
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUpvbwhmo2A
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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."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi36yrL2qMC
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5i648WbokL
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"Uh, did Bethany come through here?" He asks a nurse hoping she won't realize isn't security.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1yPLgyyMu1
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"Bethany?"124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQIYiHna1up
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"Short blonde hair, blue eyes, she... cut heself."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKukPTmWmfc
"Uh, yep. She's in with a doctor now. Solayo's personal office I think."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0b5YVcoUNA
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"Are you okay? You don't look so good. The bandage on your head, is it bleeding?"124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡydQmPf1UJy
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCg8gHBpoKJ
"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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLeke5LVpkr
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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. 124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSAiOJ9bQTq
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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-124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbH2VPM2yr1
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"Solayo! Come in!" Solayo's walkie talkie picks up. Solayo sighs and answers while he preps a needle for Bethany. 124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtyXMk3rnqM
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"What is it Grayson? I'm kind of busy right now playing doctor."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvtiSLPIcwo
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"You won't believe what I and Mikey just saw-"124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡprRmO4GNXT
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"What?"124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ShY7Gx3h1
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"There is a bomb! Cloud NO joke rigged up a bomb."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ1qkEihlFx
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"Come on-"124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJXf0YkxB2p
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"We're going to evacuate everyone."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdCMVTNhf22
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"Grayson, we can't. This place is too large for that and there are to many people for that."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5bXzztd24z
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"But-"124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwLfGmBJJBU
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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..."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW1Jh1ga8Ec
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"You can't be serious-"124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqCM9tBcsxZ
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"It's that or everyone dies."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0G6DSif395
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"Okay, we'll try." And Grayson clicks off the channel.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjRjuGooSAM
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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. 124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZh4ziqWGWP
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"Slate, are you there?"124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVyA4aBeiyN
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"Cloud's rigged a bomb."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpskwrqEij7
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"How'd you know?!"124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn0NaOg05aB
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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."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtRowMaiRTV
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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."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCDoQeiUmnQ
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"Whatever, you'll handle it. I have to face off with Solayo right now, Bethany's with him!"124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSfj74cPCaR
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"Shit. Why?"124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdmGMtU6xuV
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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. 124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡngHvWTqIHV
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"What the hell are you doing here? How did you get that?!"124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBKi7hjXHUd
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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. 124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ66wxrS3iwv
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"You're diffrent. What happened to you?"124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCClVQQxxSt
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"Solayo, leave while you still can. There is a bomb."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7HuxKIHVAn
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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. 124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCS6SorIHFo
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"Dip shit!" He yells, pulling on it. "Solayo! Solayo, come back!" 124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Vx3nWuXls
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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. 124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNV1nbfjadf
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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."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDReBFauZrm
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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-"124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI5dy5x27Gw
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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. 124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNetty4N3BA
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuhJAFeCDSS
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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. 124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmZsOmEkFJI
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0LmLFnDHCM
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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. 124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8iARnBVVSo
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSKKe5UtG1I
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"Shit, we'll have to go back and go around another way if we can." Gideon curses. 124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbFwl3V94NW
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbHI5knB8oH
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"I'm sorry, I don't want to alarm you. But we located Cloud, he rigged a bomb." 124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHDQRvFB7Mh
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She hands them her pass. "No! What about you? You can't leave us, Mum!" Lyla cries.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOo4sth02gW
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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?"124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAoIFfC6bnv
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfBDCaEadj1
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlIdVZZfUAG
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkvW2r7fwaz
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡURRBL5mBrk
"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!"124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD2Ff8b8Pi0
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"And maybe that's why you're not dead. Consider yourself lucky." Cloud speaks up and turns around leaving.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6txNZKMOBo
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsfh6gEjf2O
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As they jump into the backseat, they see trucks everywhere driving around madly.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDJXHR2C86B
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmiqJV4whgh
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzTWohZQLPA
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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBaao3ZtIdU
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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. 124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxwkVg7Nzts
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHB5x99xDMw
"How we feeling everybody?" He asks as he starts up the helicopter, blades rotating.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9BnVQJDLPE
"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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLTgxslH6vO
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"Three years."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFRwkT2jbkE
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO3E59MyjE0
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAZzHuMffnv
"Slate! What are you doing?! There are easier ways, we have a truck-" Mikey calls out.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ7oo3xMR8N
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKQiIwLpewA
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeqweCj0A3P
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"Where are we goanna go?" Lyla asks. 124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfRn8sbGPiJ
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"Anywhere WE want." Slate responds, pushing the helicopter forward and they fly off into the sun. 124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVgd0zW2s4y
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Down below, several trucks park outside far away enough from The Compound which is located inside an old mine.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN2GXMyX0dI
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUOH9oTEAHx
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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-"124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkLSZAr1Mey
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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. 124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeK39EifZQ7
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Before Solayo can say a word, it's a headshot and his knocked down. "Better now, buddy?" Mikey asks.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeOTO8u1CjF
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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."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRKxafKQvpt
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyhvwn1N1xm
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Grayson and Mikey compose themselves, standing up now that Cloud is gone. 124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHbfkjDk166
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"Where you think he goanna go?"124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9pme80aFk0
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCXWjserhbm
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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?"124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi0nTkSn4T1
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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. 124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdGWF97Pb0B
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Gideon takes the map from her when she gasps for air, panicking and sitting upright, clutching her neck and arms.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN9jXnApDO4
"You're okay, I bandaged them for you." He tells her and she relaxes, looking around confused where they are. 124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjeaut2GKxT
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"You might want to give her one of the pills, Slate." Gideon tells him.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1GHVRQXFPa
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcUgrTdJ9tb
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"Bad news, they're gone, Gid."124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdfnIVEIb9M
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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. 124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaF5E4Wgi8n
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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. 124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY9paQongMj
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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.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq19NSHWnQC
