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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEtoZVFOgVT
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQcDkXR6POe
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"Can we talk outside?"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4qfQjnuvKy
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKPUIWKlZRZ
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And she leaves, no one answering her. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAEXlV2B1UV
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKhsp3tIRmq
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0C1sJX0EJ2
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqIjBeUAn0k
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"You want to finish what Slate started?"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwuxW66icUQ
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"Why not? Break them out. We're all in the position to help them."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZNqpkLa1TJ
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZqBV8D8PAl
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLiGYsMFavd
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrz8LftLLKU
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM68oPszI6Z
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"What?"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhvMfAlifDA
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"Crashback."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6nCPFFxH6I
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"But that won't undo the last few years of-"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuqNmX7IrQH
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMIAjE7hVOI
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKTeJtaHntj
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTW4g9InPCf
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"Like his leadership skills?"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWVsC9mA6Vn
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡByuiYpWTmH
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"So how do we do that? His skills are still something that would be a spot target."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfaxixL3KsX
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"Well, it's going to leave two holes in his head. They'll heal, but-"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpTR5Swl5qJ
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"Shit."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoYKqJtuDBu
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZU5v5tYzfn
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"And what about the rest?"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfADajzDADw
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"They're fine, they can just keep doing their sorting task."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyqlvi1lLu9
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYeatZRRNGL
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaHqS3Snt3S
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3aBjgL9jBB
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Mpo2phRLt
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8oJzGMz01W
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU7zhksh4Le
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRD119yv0EF
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTLuSWTbXXg
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYTg2U1vuOX
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBExO4ms8DU
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBbE8iHnC6E
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEzNqrHBL1p
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA1n2elzlby
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Says a voice, female. "Hello?" He calls out. No reply is heard.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9xC3HshWf5
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"Why am I here? What am I supposed to do?!" He yells out fustrated. "Who am I?"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtfX7YC6AmR
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"Your heart knows who you are and you know what you are supposed to do."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMHNmXSQTOK
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBO2b48D3ES
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmkZ1EvOTOl
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡceChS2mo4o
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7sbjOY6B3G
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And then his eyes widen, he sits up straight and looks them both in the eyes. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFk2CEMXsGy
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"Do you know who you are? Who we are?"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0nILSKLhor
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"Slate. You both are the leaders, Ester and Mikey. What have you both done? You're monsters."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVb6ixrFXEQ
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxZCz5mdKzc
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH1FxFDsgmy
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We'll meet up with ya'll later outside. We'll run you a distraction."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAxbWI2JEqi
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ18tJ6ZqyqF
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSiR2AZUDDn
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ64HjRbRTun
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFfgJdc94xu
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUfjGFU0EMI
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1TLs3Z7sv6
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRkP6cR2bFX
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We ran outside for help and the guards took her away, proably to triage."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsCfQtL3zuB
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjVVJ5QXcfB
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgSbBLUaUDk
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyB2W81W83K
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzShM3qLaRw
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"Why are we doing this?" Gideon asks. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAr6vEwdUG3
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"You might understand once you've taken it."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiiORAGBr7b
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Lyla and Gideon shrug, downing them. Paisley just looks at them. "Paisley."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfZCRTfHkuK
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"I don't need them, I'm not stupid like you all are."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgQwHN3c2D0
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJjMcC4Z7vx
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt710ObQeaj
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYRzAnM2r8d
He roughly grips Murphy's arms pulling him back. "Woah, look at you." Murphy says, eyeing Slate up and down. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbxuBZIkXK6
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq377fSo985
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRcMrfoXEsa
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So fly away, Slate."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI7oPxhUFQe
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"I can't, I need to find, Beth."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ckGTATTUW
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"Uh, Infirmary I think. She was dragged out of the sorting room."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMoIZJshRok
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNnu3FEVm54
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"Fucking psychotic bitches."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡezT9bg7O3s
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ66rySry4a2
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf6b3FZ37tn
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSBlydRgebg
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAQQYzHIKCo
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxA60TSay6M
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡupNkJRTTaE
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡalWCBiEP8R
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8yrFMEWovt
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"Bethany?"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY3SDqw98zL
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"Short blonde hair, blue eyes, she... cut heself."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgmfnnHP5tz
"Uh, yep. She's in with a doctor now. Solayo's personal office I think."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7WRqRNAJYH
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"Shit."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0o0L2G7Z6G
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"Are you okay? You don't look so good. The bandage on your head, is it bleeding?"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgfk4fCm6U4
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeTLaDZeYHT
"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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWMNzMCgD70
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpOhDFXpAkf
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4GoCxeFGfo
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9yJYK4VRxj
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"What is it Grayson? I'm kind of busy right now playing doctor."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe1wNVaVPuA
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"You won't believe what I and Mikey just saw-"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr0iWcVrAqV
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"What?"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw1dwCMmHR8
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"There is a bomb! Cloud NO joke rigged up a bomb."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTNLAH95zJ4
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"Come on-"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7LsZpasgYj
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"We're going to evacuate everyone."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQzNWMx6VPs
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvbJfnn5VW2
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"But-"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9G6rfuwRhb
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMZUbarXkqP
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"You can't be serious-"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmUeVRngk8t
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"It's that or everyone dies."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtdSDLpyWwP
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"Okay, we'll try." And Grayson clicks off the channel.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKjJt1SplHs
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGg5k7zxnSo
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"Slate, are you there?"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKN9AOB4v3q
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"Cloud's rigged a bomb."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPyHeaDiUIr
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"How'd you know?!"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIjRlBuA4U5
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUcL8ioljYb
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡacnSDulUKW
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4S4fJg6fxu
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"Shit. Why?"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGPy8kzdWsr
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAcihABC0sC
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"What the hell are you doing here? How did you get that?!"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIoDpPV60nE
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC2WRiZpNj5
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"You're diffrent. What happened to you?"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDv6zz9POVW
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"Solayo, leave while you still can. There is a bomb."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7OCXJbPZrb
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡehhocpdUSl
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"Dip shit!" He yells, pulling on it. "Solayo! Solayo, come back!" 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPPfE9DW8Re
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJnwqhqVjKr
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDPRR6W39k8
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlDhTAEwzvk
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKFPppZ0TvL
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTniXzjS02F
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXgDklJ40tk
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJItYeofJjL
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBXE3eCgidP
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCUWDFDScER
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"Shit, we'll have to go back and go around another way if we can." Gideon curses. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw78pMTb5aP
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXlrrNgnFIP
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaAIeT35T1L
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She hands them her pass. "No! What about you? You can't leave us, Mum!" Lyla cries.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIIoNcLPSvW
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnCCpnCyJt9
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDlRiwdDVrA
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRHlw5YV3GK
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdQVoW1SSsz
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVkA75imvJI
"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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI0DmJLkS2j
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBkA2z9Q3VG
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbI9mi0ctt0
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As they jump into the backseat, they see trucks everywhere driving around madly.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyw7agcWW0L
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRhlMLjcsBl
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDglkhqGpTK
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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOyNbPGba0A
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfs1jM5tZ9p
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS2efeoacNP
"How we feeling everybody?" He asks as he starts up the helicopter, blades rotating.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuKFqxDr2Sy
"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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrpU8jP6mrI
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"Three years."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnAd8zdqZBS
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg1JGiRJ7A7
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ88noupZ1Qj
"Slate! What are you doing?! There are easier ways, we have a truck-" Mikey calls out.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8cYJN0mFpB
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFSVQQxMR7F
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyN0s5H4X2U
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"Where are we goanna go?" Lyla asks. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6EHYKJOLdg
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"Anywhere WE want." Slate responds, pushing the helicopter forward and they fly off into the sun. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuT8X0LM5Uu
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfAm0amtwdi
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFN1spuTOHx
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfkzIDlAmbo
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaRn7HlduY0
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEf3XNfEalD
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxccjBF1rgE
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkHqISUUm8E
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Grayson and Mikey compose themselves, standing up now that Cloud is gone. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkFnlx7kxmY
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"Where you think he goanna go?"196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF7AGCreZoC
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3gdYf20p2i
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyWIkcOd66C
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkyqNruVm9X
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf1fGV5HnEw
"You're okay, I bandaged them for you." He tells her and she relaxes, looking around confused where they are. 196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5OVZS5bchC
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"You might want to give her one of the pills, Slate." Gideon tells him.196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnZa36NSflj
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWEPChlfzDo
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"Bad news, they're gone, Gid."196Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkW7tmStmfu
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLEonLoPg6p
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZJoVQYO9An
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQfwtgsfDaA
