Slate, Lyla, Gideon, Paisley and Bethany at each of their own respective tables are packing tinned food into crates, aprons and hair nets donned. 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOr47r6MX5b
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgAVEEI8Hn4
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"Can we talk outside?"126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5zd6DsmBMl
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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?"126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq7mztGHG5n
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And she leaves, no one answering her. 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKGZLmDNYYu
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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...126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9veFn8naZJ
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvcPtfekr9H
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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."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQAGEVrbzMV
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"You want to finish what Slate started?"126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp8cvl77MPv
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"Why not? Break them out. We're all in the position to help them."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm2E4uAERyO
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ztuLdQaZH
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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. 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVnoWzXWwcI
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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."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUfdIeICZM6
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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."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQXlqVcQFfN
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"What?"126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEWY7PGyER6
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"Crashback."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzVieeFaJeW
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"But that won't undo the last few years of-"126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo1T5MflaUs
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLh7MRmVbHB
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡILAKlqGJIK
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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."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr6AVFiKZ67
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"Like his leadership skills?"126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl0TjtI3lRB
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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."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcnEE6j0tzP
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"So how do we do that? His skills are still something that would be a spot target."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrT5UhaffZ8
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"Well, it's going to leave two holes in his head. They'll heal, but-"126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd9EQUs3Wpc
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"Shit."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiAXF4m78wI
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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."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAxYxUCaYY8
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"And what about the rest?"126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ82A8FmC0Fn
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"They're fine, they can just keep doing their sorting task."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6jH4bMmFC5
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS76DaC3YFv
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJea1kTwvyW
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYfWB655Xfm
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCMRagPnjAF
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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. 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡojlGyNWRqG
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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. 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡALHoMT36MY
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWmR289XAmC
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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. 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAQ9iQNvPXL
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEoAX2d7fRc
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnPI5mnhlfU
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJUncXpPZGd
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTjEzfqxRy9
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"I wouldn't play with that if I were you. The last person who did was severed from me."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB5CrcLRapE
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Says a voice, female. "Hello?" He calls out. No reply is heard.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzXh0iIBD7D
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"Why am I here? What am I supposed to do?!" He yells out fustrated. "Who am I?"126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMCOTq3KZWH
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"Your heart knows who you are and you know what you are supposed to do."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8T441UbbW5
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRBXmKAEOgL
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUsdJuQuFTC
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDNzVDXAZES
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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-126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Y0ei6AVLU
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And then his eyes widen, he sits up straight and looks them both in the eyes. 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNhBcTYLsG0
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"Do you know who you are? Who we are?"126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkbGOcNybH2
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"Slate. You both are the leaders, Ester and Mikey. What have you both done? You're monsters."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9p67th94f9
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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. 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxuCMXiT41M
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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. 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1NYfBcD8B6
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We'll meet up with ya'll later outside. We'll run you a distraction."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7QJ8CgxlPH
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0HjLzfYDLV
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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. 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8AKDOmRwjI
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDcVhYVPXBg
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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. 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt7lLwGhlTx
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1VfQQFKcql
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsfpUoOhRXl
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaPoUC8bIkW
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We ran outside for help and the guards took her away, proably to triage."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzTQH3t1tb5
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvFEsQOCzB7
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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."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi62SEUmRgY
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRnNQroMMir
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡABBUzNPDTB
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"Why are we doing this?" Gideon asks. 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWGkCEflfWP
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"You might understand once you've taken it."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1SC68fQjmh
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Lyla and Gideon shrug, downing them. Paisley just looks at them. "Paisley."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsPyek9mHav
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"I don't need them, I'm not stupid like you all are."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMnEwe0S1LQ
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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."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ZQlbYp2C5
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvgMKV1eyTz
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡysA3NYgkUN
He roughly grips Murphy's arms pulling him back. "Woah, look at you." Murphy says, eyeing Slate up and down. 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLyCVTp8a0D
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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."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGMgQL3tOGh
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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. 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR29Xlk33HA
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So fly away, Slate."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSUfZNZMyFF
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"I can't, I need to find, Beth."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpJyTLFKPdr
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"Uh, Infirmary I think. She was dragged out of the sorting room."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNTwnYE6ZpH
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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."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwddBuTz6El
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"Fucking psychotic bitches."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqlFkOWL2lP
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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." 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZQymCFJwAv
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiS11HC0JjN
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ10PwkPIQb4
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMnqw1x4fXf
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyTK5sgpuvz
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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."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS5Qv1VR4xb
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg0NR3Nj80q
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"Uh, did Bethany come through here?" He asks a nurse hoping she won't realize isn't security.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjL0aRSTzxC
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"Bethany?"126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfK217bHLbl
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"Short blonde hair, blue eyes, she... cut heself."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlZvflO8jj0
"Uh, yep. She's in with a doctor now. Solayo's personal office I think."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmsTRr3dj6I
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"Are you okay? You don't look so good. The bandage on your head, is it bleeding?"126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVsGPymZv6b
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmG5TWvSRaC
"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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIMQ8tXdwjN
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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. 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRACfrwLsAu
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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-126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdjrqhb4dU7
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"Solayo! Come in!" Solayo's walkie talkie picks up. Solayo sighs and answers while he preps a needle for Bethany. 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXVZnPBBZdX
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"What is it Grayson? I'm kind of busy right now playing doctor."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0royLSTMxG
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"You won't believe what I and Mikey just saw-"126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC3RtOfSxP2
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"What?"126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEzgHmQ597z
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"There is a bomb! Cloud NO joke rigged up a bomb."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmP8iUSKmcJ
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"Come on-"126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwE60s6qgW5
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"We're going to evacuate everyone."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzt7WoDxWFk
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"Grayson, we can't. This place is too large for that and there are to many people for that."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjjea3eeaAa
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"But-"126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSE54oAU8il
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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..."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0AsnuuQBiB
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"You can't be serious-"126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTMp2ERxvaM
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"It's that or everyone dies."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9wS03IQlXD
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"Okay, we'll try." And Grayson clicks off the channel.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgmoLaNtahH
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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. 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNJYTYNZdL7
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"Slate, are you there?"126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTW4d4pEuwf
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"Cloud's rigged a bomb."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb7U2EcRzlS
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"How'd you know?!"126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu4a7RjG6Tp
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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."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBEl2KIbXG1
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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."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhtrUCNJqrV
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"Whatever, you'll handle it. I have to face off with Solayo right now, Bethany's with him!"126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZEaP49AZF8
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"Shit. Why?"126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfaIRnp7rUZ
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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. 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTwr3LO5Cfr
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"What the hell are you doing here? How did you get that?!"126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSN3HVo44yf
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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. 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRwHTE9gmsX
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"You're diffrent. What happened to you?"126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbdysr57VVe
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"Solayo, leave while you still can. There is a bomb."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡav1o0TIVQs
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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. 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv5xP17pnXx
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"Dip shit!" He yells, pulling on it. "Solayo! Solayo, come back!" 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBG5Z53VkbP
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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. 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRlpiDcMnR0
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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."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjOBNCmMNot
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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-"126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjufIQx2VXj
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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. 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4vkTmTc80f
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ29mrquxJzP
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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. 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxYIFYeMepx
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ24XCaDe9KP
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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. 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMrvEnlbDJ7
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjROMCuW8Oo
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"Shit, we'll have to go back and go around another way if we can." Gideon curses. 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpbvpp4fyyE
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwxgdIuOT5W
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"I'm sorry, I don't want to alarm you. But we located Cloud, he rigged a bomb." 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdAcYqmkKny
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She hands them her pass. "No! What about you? You can't leave us, Mum!" Lyla cries.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT5N10BSRZZ
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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?"126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4ME44mW0nC
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9xXeXFyHnH
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZq8EoeAyMB
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT2uQCQyXyI
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlenQ0t0a5e
"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!"126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoRPKBhGkoP
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"And maybe that's why you're not dead. Consider yourself lucky." Cloud speaks up and turns around leaving.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg4VUZ9r4km
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4oIgxQiGlr
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As they jump into the backseat, they see trucks everywhere driving around madly.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRYc6OZYJzK
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz70sbOQcsg
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiPW2Cl6EaG
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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9kTLKMgI6S
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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. 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc1LU4DemMk
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo2mdcmPcb6
"How we feeling everybody?" He asks as he starts up the helicopter, blades rotating.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtYn8sLZZTs
"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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtwxYkReuiH
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"Three years."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw6rKPY9xXD
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRXsylwuF43
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe0jqgCEi2S
"Slate! What are you doing?! There are easier ways, we have a truck-" Mikey calls out.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡveRHtcxG6H
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbRdgLU6Y4a
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcG6XUCs591
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"Where are we goanna go?" Lyla asks. 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsGuSSizXzM
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"Anywhere WE want." Slate responds, pushing the helicopter forward and they fly off into the sun. 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡryNyRxJR0W
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Down below, several trucks park outside far away enough from The Compound which is located inside an old mine.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡog8Jn0TfKl
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡURdytnxXK5
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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-"126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU9es150KDI
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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. 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHeSyWRN1ti
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Before Solayo can say a word, it's a headshot and his knocked down. "Better now, buddy?" Mikey asks.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQDXbHFTq9o
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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."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkZmkfDGzXt
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKCAWOPRd4g
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Grayson and Mikey compose themselves, standing up now that Cloud is gone. 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwUBtz5Cms7
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"Where you think he goanna go?"126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡALMEV3tDv8
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnFSw2RXqz8
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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?"126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqEjfv2Ty76
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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. 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2CXzMQbHAX
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Gideon takes the map from her when she gasps for air, panicking and sitting upright, clutching her neck and arms.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoVdamArNS9
"You're okay, I bandaged them for you." He tells her and she relaxes, looking around confused where they are. 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxN1J1KkZar
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"You might want to give her one of the pills, Slate." Gideon tells him.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDxOGmMMxk2
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡanlVJcbSGV
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"Bad news, they're gone, Gid."126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmjHouHSerP
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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. 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcO68wcF9ON
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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. 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGXvLTLuZz5
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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.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡscSAt6RPLy
