Slate, Lyla, Gideon, Paisley and Bethany at each of their own respective tables are packing tinned food into crates, aprons and hair nets donned. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlrxf0DhsRi
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZkk95NnFN1
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"Can we talk outside?"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPlbbX0igMh
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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?"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpk2ETBL6TU
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And she leaves, no one answering her. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA6uMqozqcf
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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...196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLEUpAt2pfU
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgUtjn8I6sb
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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."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXqNHShEw7t
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"You want to finish what Slate started?"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsbH3KxLCX0
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"Why not? Break them out. We're all in the position to help them."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkwofWdE0GS
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnN0UexPHEw
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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. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVcv8xpJSjO
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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."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWPscRcFBVQ
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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."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFBZfcnkBJM
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"What?"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq06ivklBSk
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"Crashback."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOeqXjgVIau
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"But that won't undo the last few years of-"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFf8lH9W2jV
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhcu4M87baY
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡItFQqsFz4c
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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."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAsDM4Zkpi1
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"Like his leadership skills?"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUf2JvoEaRL
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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."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkhzcmAfVlq
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"So how do we do that? His skills are still something that would be a spot target."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0FKwP9laVR
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"Well, it's going to leave two holes in his head. They'll heal, but-"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyA2tiEFJIE
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"Shit."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH30998B6oa
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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."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡowynpfwBIk
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"And what about the rest?"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXpIVhLdaO4
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"They're fine, they can just keep doing their sorting task."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzdhMnOc6am
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡidFcPXzrYA
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwaMQ8ylkVf
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9TyHAJztVG
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡebgD3iW4xE
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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. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdPvnoTiB07
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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. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2KYXS87KPH
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXc19vE6Ffv
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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. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjZ8GpQoJZ2
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLSDwxRycZe
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG1YKGBDNFw
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjKyhIbcT2D
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4cn7W9Z61w
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"I wouldn't play with that if I were you. The last person who did was severed from me."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8tYCmXNCve
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Says a voice, female. "Hello?" He calls out. No reply is heard.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ZMwxOSneq
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"Why am I here? What am I supposed to do?!" He yells out fustrated. "Who am I?"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkn7lRl3z6w
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"Your heart knows who you are and you know what you are supposed to do."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJpfmGi9xHj
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAklEg7pRac
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvNx4NmUF9U
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNAcA3sn7om
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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-196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡku5gLgLML8
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And then his eyes widen, he sits up straight and looks them both in the eyes. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhQjyC5e0cK
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"Do you know who you are? Who we are?"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Fp0SSYEgz
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"Slate. You both are the leaders, Ester and Mikey. What have you both done? You're monsters."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiGDLfyIXpS
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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. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcLjikN0zqf
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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. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjKabUyNs9v
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We'll meet up with ya'll later outside. We'll run you a distraction."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbLNUB0jYTJ
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGPCUKp7N51
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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. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbXjuqDpN5P
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRkxepTW5eI
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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. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhOHR3NSXQK
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZwBPS9kfwg
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo4GUfAoCIL
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmAYidJKH49
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We ran outside for help and the guards took her away, proably to triage."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡslVCPat4xL
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBdFa0VtMYp
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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."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiO2n9bT6lb
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdtu160Vvo5
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5dljTTv6Ke
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"Why are we doing this?" Gideon asks. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Zr8HGcKFY
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"You might understand once you've taken it."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgCGxAuMpib
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Lyla and Gideon shrug, downing them. Paisley just looks at them. "Paisley."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcF5iA5AXWO
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"I don't need them, I'm not stupid like you all are."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAqQClk1zHd
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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."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUJMmq8M8M2
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7vf1VasVgB
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLejQYa4vHG
He roughly grips Murphy's arms pulling him back. "Woah, look at you." Murphy says, eyeing Slate up and down. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5E3Z8jW8Qg
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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."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXq6IXfyNgJ
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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. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHGdRFRnspn
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So fly away, Slate."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCqCVlNtCl1
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"I can't, I need to find, Beth."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2wwQkQthK2
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"Uh, Infirmary I think. She was dragged out of the sorting room."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4fcQskgRrx
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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."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVXJxPMy5K3
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"Fucking psychotic bitches."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbygRAIyRwr
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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." 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMrm7vtuumr
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3I2rK7zV5J
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXCxAj2CkBg
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyNRfE7tylA
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFbDTBuTEAJ
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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."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvJr0zIEsom
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkjJ0mTtQ4z
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"Uh, did Bethany come through here?" He asks a nurse hoping she won't realize isn't security.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR95inUISFk
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"Bethany?"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvae1tMvcO7
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"Short blonde hair, blue eyes, she... cut heself."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXAF48nfcpr
"Uh, yep. She's in with a doctor now. Solayo's personal office I think."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXz6UQcCMV8
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"Shit."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡswYS778d3L
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"Are you okay? You don't look so good. The bandage on your head, is it bleeding?"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzzYcuLYRKC
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYeybWdDQ74
"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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9tSC6TBPGO
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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. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT213EVp2QF
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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-196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcywWFp6fqD
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"Solayo! Come in!" Solayo's walkie talkie picks up. Solayo sighs and answers while he preps a needle for Bethany. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSuHpV8PNS1
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"What is it Grayson? I'm kind of busy right now playing doctor."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcKhlzXqznQ
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"You won't believe what I and Mikey just saw-"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjfInnEC1Rx
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"What?"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOti9lHy0Jv
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"There is a bomb! Cloud NO joke rigged up a bomb."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKZuJZetCql
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"Come on-"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBg3TMuxwH4
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"We're going to evacuate everyone."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbLKNk7mBUU
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"Grayson, we can't. This place is too large for that and there are to many people for that."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRdwQjPMWdv
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"But-"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdInRXz62Ts
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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..."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡErHEaheed0
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"You can't be serious-"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0lV5HWcAvF
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"It's that or everyone dies."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYwyvd43mYy
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"Okay, we'll try." And Grayson clicks off the channel.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhBfZJwYmB5
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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. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3bHmzA0mF8
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"Slate, are you there?"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLrI41Vzkjt
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"Cloud's rigged a bomb."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxatb0nGcQU
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"How'd you know?!"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs3MtkJrrNz
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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."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAxuH2rksYZ
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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."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEuS2qmguGp
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"Whatever, you'll handle it. I have to face off with Solayo right now, Bethany's with him!"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzABUsjaS1r
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"Shit. Why?"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡANTUII5JfM
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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. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjU807kZQG9
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"What the hell are you doing here? How did you get that?!"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ44EF2uHbBj
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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. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVVu222N0IZ
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"You're diffrent. What happened to you?"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6BEO9QbnTz
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"Solayo, leave while you still can. There is a bomb."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2yDLxxPyt7
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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. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAKxP7MgG1D
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"Dip shit!" He yells, pulling on it. "Solayo! Solayo, come back!" 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY0sKTw3izI
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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. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaMc4xRzweu
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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."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtvSf2SHn1Q
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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-"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyOkXb4pt9u
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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. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtaGqBi2Fy7
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaeWi8jYUoH
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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. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKK2jZAPwqU
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMlmLg7JFQx
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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. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjRRoZj4k0S
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVlnLpLji80
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"Shit, we'll have to go back and go around another way if we can." Gideon curses. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡegr95odFoW
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVPX53uOcUT
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"I'm sorry, I don't want to alarm you. But we located Cloud, he rigged a bomb." 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAXKb5eFb5F
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She hands them her pass. "No! What about you? You can't leave us, Mum!" Lyla cries.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4iRcHw8sLi
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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?"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpFU4NT0aL2
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡily4khzgJE
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhKwZlejeTP
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNihYG9dNvO
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjyITNz0ubw
"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!"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvCoEim5PaF
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"And maybe that's why you're not dead. Consider yourself lucky." Cloud speaks up and turns around leaving.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ901fxniYyV
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiduMsWaunT
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As they jump into the backseat, they see trucks everywhere driving around madly.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ZlMfkhz42
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrqqmrMz02z
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8q06JdBNwE
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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKH9ONKYFfm
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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. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEJpO7JEjOO
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRzm5fVXSoo
"How we feeling everybody?" He asks as he starts up the helicopter, blades rotating.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiHZqG0Yr8Z
"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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUugYjfGxwq
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"Three years."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwA4ynymxuw
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYywbIzAsur
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqs8Tt9zHV6
"Slate! What are you doing?! There are easier ways, we have a truck-" Mikey calls out.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbqzcMAUPDD
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX7BIwcB4NU
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjALXPvJSSL
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"Where are we goanna go?" Lyla asks. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡamez1fGVYO
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"Anywhere WE want." Slate responds, pushing the helicopter forward and they fly off into the sun. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGNnd8gqy5f
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Down below, several trucks park outside far away enough from The Compound which is located inside an old mine.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBdyavsIh0d
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuBDKlHUhFx
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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-"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ZjHOnwlcm
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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. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH9HnEJvKMs
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Before Solayo can say a word, it's a headshot and his knocked down. "Better now, buddy?" Mikey asks.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfDkzKLeVOq
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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."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcyXejX4V9Q
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKGWVi1998c
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Grayson and Mikey compose themselves, standing up now that Cloud is gone. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhGpPFxZyM3
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"Where you think he goanna go?"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzskfw5l0Cs
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAZ4nCy5tRQ
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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?"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8xg9iL2uuq
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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. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjL4OsU8kqL
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Gideon takes the map from her when she gasps for air, panicking and sitting upright, clutching her neck and arms.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXPjKd0zWkO
"You're okay, I bandaged them for you." He tells her and she relaxes, looking around confused where they are. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4cPEyWzz1K
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"You might want to give her one of the pills, Slate." Gideon tells him.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3zT8dQE7KG
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKp6M7keRkB
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"Bad news, they're gone, Gid."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp2zAjMh46o
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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. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1v1ttbaIAp
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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. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbpM5QJJw4g
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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.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB0lvpQAsWu
