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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0xaxzPlBgG
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"Can we talk outside?"161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡszxmuRwiLB
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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?"161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZQAvex10Ex
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And she leaves, no one answering her. 161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY1E7vwqJt0
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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...161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrZWQDUEdBn
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwfbcDEICb4
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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."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWd48dT4l7P
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"You want to finish what Slate started?"161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0WKt1dGqAn
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"Why not? Break them out. We're all in the position to help them."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIvGTZcCE2R
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnrvfsrSLRs
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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. 161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwF0zBFFu1r
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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."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZc9dtEB8Du
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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."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRsu5gCHK9X
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"What?"161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtWDL8Wi55X
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"Crashback."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡawlGgmYAvv
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"But that won't undo the last few years of-"161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6kt6ViJ7Hb
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgV4cnmHADh
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjizdAnFoON
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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."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEe0dHm4sQM
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"Like his leadership skills?"161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr9NIkiPgEm
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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."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrmz4zr5NB6
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"So how do we do that? His skills are still something that would be a spot target."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqsPlUJbBGP
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"Well, it's going to leave two holes in his head. They'll heal, but-"161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMAokZ1X4UN
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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."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQnLfQYsKeJ
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"And what about the rest?"161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkyipxvGWNw
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"They're fine, they can just keep doing their sorting task."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb7OTkn8zId
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQt2BLNufAA
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRyPXDwHoC1
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbhkfTNxsOI
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv7hJPEhbXf
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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. 161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ92Ojw4mtTw
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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. 161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡukhotS4KDa
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLNcQ0jJpek
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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. 161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkvLPZGxuVe
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ZJMKSXtJI
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhcUqPaIxfW
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu57rAtXMvu
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRxhWUNHT1M
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"I wouldn't play with that if I were you. The last person who did was severed from me."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnt7HELk3sv
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Says a voice, female. "Hello?" He calls out. No reply is heard.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOKTOLBm4BN
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"Why am I here? What am I supposed to do?!" He yells out fustrated. "Who am I?"161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡid2wVIJoYj
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"Your heart knows who you are and you know what you are supposed to do."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz9KcgIoc4F
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡud6yuNv8tt
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS0aOrSUdCu
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWBc6wtiZ8Z
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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-161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeQzZFQumNV
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And then his eyes widen, he sits up straight and looks them both in the eyes. 161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL74JnT6STX
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"Do you know who you are? Who we are?"161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpbts0IYyb8
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"Slate. You both are the leaders, Ester and Mikey. What have you both done? You're monsters."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT79QHX5HMj
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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. 161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKZhPh2dRQR
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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. 161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwJyRc2DFHV
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We'll meet up with ya'll later outside. We'll run you a distraction."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2IpswxEz3S
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3rXnsLw21b
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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. 161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeZayL1xL6V
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe3lVKWfB1n
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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. 161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSnWndsY2Yv
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvjDFIXIn8t
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXpI2LBFCuG
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkXsrTvyZik
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We ran outside for help and the guards took her away, proably to triage."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡguwLVyOchJ
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEPjBEXjhKr
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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."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgm8UVNUizL
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhq0NoO3QYR
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnTZYdnXPYN
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"Why are we doing this?" Gideon asks. 161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBNWcEmUW09
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"You might understand once you've taken it."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUCRSRqwkcL
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Lyla and Gideon shrug, downing them. Paisley just looks at them. "Paisley."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlIDe22x8nW
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"I don't need them, I'm not stupid like you all are."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1y3waPJEAN
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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."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXYrooXN8Bx
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6pfIpuXjEA
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPnbZkBDPjS
He roughly grips Murphy's arms pulling him back. "Woah, look at you." Murphy says, eyeing Slate up and down. 161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdrW2gR57qI
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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."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDoKqGHcUA1
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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. 161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu2qR2nCLoz
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So fly away, Slate."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJNK0dt2sUR
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"I can't, I need to find, Beth."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhsh1Rwe0qk
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"Uh, Infirmary I think. She was dragged out of the sorting room."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc91fFwQdwe
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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."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWczFZ55kge
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"Fucking psychotic bitches."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgZIZNgpcFU
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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." 161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡApKs8o5Zp8
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv9u1DVPjU1
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpvcei1i7Cm
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAc2uWobxCQ
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqztvwbyzB6
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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."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5xOopAxa65
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTsLIsMVtRl
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"Uh, did Bethany come through here?" He asks a nurse hoping she won't realize isn't security.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgIYZTMvhu7
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"Bethany?"161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4LFoZSbq6H
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"Short blonde hair, blue eyes, she... cut heself."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeeLtNLaj8C
"Uh, yep. She's in with a doctor now. Solayo's personal office I think."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDXBzfC2fps
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"Are you okay? You don't look so good. The bandage on your head, is it bleeding?"161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2bYzK4M4SZ
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLQsTK6aJT6
"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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXHephnNvlR
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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. 161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdNh0eBgRe7
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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-161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnwkTlB1sHZ
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"Solayo! Come in!" Solayo's walkie talkie picks up. Solayo sighs and answers while he preps a needle for Bethany. 161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU1B2WltC5d
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"What is it Grayson? I'm kind of busy right now playing doctor."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCmA2ltd1oM
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"You won't believe what I and Mikey just saw-"161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡciPvRt8Fo7
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"What?"161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzfGs6kyRkU
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"There is a bomb! Cloud NO joke rigged up a bomb."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkyidXu9gvH
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"Come on-"161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSKZp5OxjII
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"We're going to evacuate everyone."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJfljIcoG1W
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"Grayson, we can't. This place is too large for that and there are to many people for that."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpsteVP0W0O
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"But-"161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2InB7annT4
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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..."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxDYaG3Qo37
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"You can't be serious-"161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlqQAIytTqS
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"It's that or everyone dies."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoE2QfNd24e
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"Okay, we'll try." And Grayson clicks off the channel.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7TmkoP8bix
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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. 161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMPD0JQwqnV
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"Slate, are you there?"161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjPBvT4ozUj
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"Cloud's rigged a bomb."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtlfm8HOgBu
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"How'd you know?!"161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRdX1NFkIiV
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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."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsZsdNwt2LO
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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."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaRdZPKwqsw
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"Whatever, you'll handle it. I have to face off with Solayo right now, Bethany's with him!"161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3AAOLCyDB8
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"Shit. Why?"161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIeP31rMKFQ
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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. 161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdJP2vksaad
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"What the hell are you doing here? How did you get that?!"161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJjlyaSTSrd
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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. 161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUGNst1OKNI
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"You're diffrent. What happened to you?"161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrXSmQ8iZoD
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"Solayo, leave while you still can. There is a bomb."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7YtlVUvLCM
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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. 161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKiXQtI0OnR
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"Dip shit!" He yells, pulling on it. "Solayo! Solayo, come back!" 161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡywLm1rUctP
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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. 161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxWNAxDGCT7
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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."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHkmT8NO95Y
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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-"161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOtHdrvwgwi
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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. 161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzItjYY99Tn
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKjmA7MhYe2
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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. 161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8iuo0oCQ6L
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡehZUsHqFSV
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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. 161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEeCzgO9ghj
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCWmS67DODi
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"Shit, we'll have to go back and go around another way if we can." Gideon curses. 161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQVNm0up9j4
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCS4sHDQ6dJ
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"I'm sorry, I don't want to alarm you. But we located Cloud, he rigged a bomb." 161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWpEOnpVmZN
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She hands them her pass. "No! What about you? You can't leave us, Mum!" Lyla cries.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcl5ITOXQta
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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?"161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhCrNkaUPZ0
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsAICdb35LY
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFsJYdGV4Uh
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPyD66OnAp1
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlWzENuY3ra
"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!"161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkxTgfD2zM7
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"And maybe that's why you're not dead. Consider yourself lucky." Cloud speaks up and turns around leaving.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsGZi4eV1LE
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBLVI6meJD1
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As they jump into the backseat, they see trucks everywhere driving around madly.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn5QBrGAgRw
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCaMsByUTJM
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVJWgFyGLmW
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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlXUn3whsB6
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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. 161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9noE3wxXuo
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpp21Su3t3H
"How we feeling everybody?" He asks as he starts up the helicopter, blades rotating.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuAHJvvZlps
"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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLLr8N24kea
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"Three years."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeaLLqIJl9m
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhtngS2naE5
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcyQcMido8l
"Slate! What are you doing?! There are easier ways, we have a truck-" Mikey calls out.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzMfAzWbZXr
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE4cokbTE0S
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjwzjfth7YQ
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"Where are we goanna go?" Lyla asks. 161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBIQwF4UC3d
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"Anywhere WE want." Slate responds, pushing the helicopter forward and they fly off into the sun. 161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsaq0XPLesl
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Down below, several trucks park outside far away enough from The Compound which is located inside an old mine.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwDbXDXnwIZ
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkotjTI1ffK
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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-"161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9tpVXqFJtb
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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. 161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT0vgUAjEgV
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Before Solayo can say a word, it's a headshot and his knocked down. "Better now, buddy?" Mikey asks.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY6FZrKbUHq
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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."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWIJlVjfKm5
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ07cnQ4GDHI
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Grayson and Mikey compose themselves, standing up now that Cloud is gone. 161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa8x0Heh6pW
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"Where you think he goanna go?"161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVyA7OgqS9g
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUJU0EECi6m
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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?"161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0YaDkjS5C5
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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. 161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjyzBoR7vk5
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Gideon takes the map from her when she gasps for air, panicking and sitting upright, clutching her neck and arms.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ72AfyQecJS
"You're okay, I bandaged them for you." He tells her and she relaxes, looking around confused where they are. 161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlKdVtXi4BT
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"You might want to give her one of the pills, Slate." Gideon tells him.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ3wheq66h7
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN7zV1w069i
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"Bad news, they're gone, Gid."161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnW1QyEzJoL
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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. 161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEQDRnLBBVL
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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. 161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyF0Och4OWi
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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.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR99unwJqd7
