Slate, Lyla, Gideon, Paisley and Bethany at each of their own respective tables are packing tinned food into crates, aprons and hair nets donned. 195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡInKsnR0dc9
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0sIXAS2O9f
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"Can we talk outside?"195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWuHiO5ocMo
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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?"195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWD5NSpWgNE
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And she leaves, no one answering her. 195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8J6QLRgpNZ
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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...195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkhRdBEEo5W
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw8QxylC1k9
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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."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMYkzRJgGbb
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"You want to finish what Slate started?"195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyrd6CjnSOT
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"Why not? Break them out. We're all in the position to help them."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIgZSbopbg2
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhUklonMDtK
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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. 195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdyO2puTNig
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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."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡknsKB4zZUz
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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."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuixYIfesfr
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"What?"195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbtkJfHCr1Y
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"Crashback."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTZXJJJ0m2O
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"But that won't undo the last few years of-"195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9L8BGWHYgh
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Hix3Q2eVv
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt2c8pGjpQN
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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."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDuW9ACUX8S
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"Like his leadership skills?"195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP9JeSrIkNn
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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."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡds3waSnVVb
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"So how do we do that? His skills are still something that would be a spot target."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCASW5u0qW0
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"Well, it's going to leave two holes in his head. They'll heal, but-"195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkgNUaGiD3N
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"Shit."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAhtZpui9N3
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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."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSx7s9DjYCy
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"And what about the rest?"195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo2rL638Yg4
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"They're fine, they can just keep doing their sorting task."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡooZJCqyG0X
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyEy51Ofrqs
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTbHwOHpgiM
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU9MiYnmXvg
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡblOeQ7bho4
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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. 195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNp191TvTCY
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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. 195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu3gMm8ZNXx
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRhjKbtfkmG
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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. 195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZEJynNa6rM
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYZIHHdPzSJ
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNIyhlSYCEL
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf5pW1w4PVU
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLiF3ykO0Vy
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"I wouldn't play with that if I were you. The last person who did was severed from me."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQmDAvnR2j9
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Says a voice, female. "Hello?" He calls out. No reply is heard.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbKdwUNRDDd
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"Why am I here? What am I supposed to do?!" He yells out fustrated. "Who am I?"195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtkPNTPdX1l
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"Your heart knows who you are and you know what you are supposed to do."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaRLuz3xi3p
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNV87v7wq1x
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiLUn2YwPiR
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgwX0HISAkF
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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-195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1wHAEZvjsJ
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And then his eyes widen, he sits up straight and looks them both in the eyes. 195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW8Mrr7K3V7
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"Do you know who you are? Who we are?"195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzYMPr0rXBt
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"Slate. You both are the leaders, Ester and Mikey. What have you both done? You're monsters."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXBur3quZD2
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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. 195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe025u14w4e
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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. 195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUb1di51UhC
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We'll meet up with ya'll later outside. We'll run you a distraction."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBW6wdDkJ1E
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA3UDtzT5qf
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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. 195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHgM4hezR61
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdF6o53JFNx
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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. 195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrE1LFeVLy1
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3azYpgH9hK
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUcReYcHCe2
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzTVvbZyQ1Q
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We ran outside for help and the guards took her away, proably to triage."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5EsE8s6NBB
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQULOYy8uXj
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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."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQsDnmPzzfT
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP2DYgOdtf8
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfaXbrSqSOI
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"Why are we doing this?" Gideon asks. 195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXUoCiVsEDj
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"You might understand once you've taken it."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp7qYpseFHc
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Lyla and Gideon shrug, downing them. Paisley just looks at them. "Paisley."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhCLPZ2mDN0
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"I don't need them, I'm not stupid like you all are."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzX4xEl0O9I
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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."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2L6NDLGEul
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFS0WOEGoaz
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqJXy8TKzSS
He roughly grips Murphy's arms pulling him back. "Woah, look at you." Murphy says, eyeing Slate up and down. 195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡacsUqJKMUM
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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."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWViawFqKKe
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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. 195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqH7TV15aBK
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So fly away, Slate."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡahlO7PqLo3
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"I can't, I need to find, Beth."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu893Vzcw3g
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"Uh, Infirmary I think. She was dragged out of the sorting room."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQj9ll2u0fV
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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."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkjfgY0npKq
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"Fucking psychotic bitches."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY0EffH3Fcc
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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." 195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpySDMmXxuo
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjJLJnplvL1
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhkmgXexA8s
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Q1yLWZzC7
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0CMwZsHKUP
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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."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡflssjGocuF
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKkpnazNDCU
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"Uh, did Bethany come through here?" He asks a nurse hoping she won't realize isn't security.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbujJ5kT27l
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"Bethany?"195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyRfAHc5IFx
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"Short blonde hair, blue eyes, she... cut heself."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGhLxPAIoYl
"Uh, yep. She's in with a doctor now. Solayo's personal office I think."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQPHjhXbVc8
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"Shit."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpDCexYDIki
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"Are you okay? You don't look so good. The bandage on your head, is it bleeding?"195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZnjySHjbFL
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYTUbn8Qd7o
"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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBc0IqTLSDI
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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. 195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2guWPhwqCE
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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-195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwqBxaMN9J1
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"Solayo! Come in!" Solayo's walkie talkie picks up. Solayo sighs and answers while he preps a needle for Bethany. 195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVuhgqsPXrD
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"What is it Grayson? I'm kind of busy right now playing doctor."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgrsOxDXByG
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"You won't believe what I and Mikey just saw-"195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWtMikmI9Sf
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"What?"195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdqXj7p4O35
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"There is a bomb! Cloud NO joke rigged up a bomb."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUjgbPXFGWy
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"Come on-"195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1USDlLsQ02
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"We're going to evacuate everyone."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnMw1SG66R0
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"Grayson, we can't. This place is too large for that and there are to many people for that."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrdPuwAfBP3
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"But-"195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4S11kBYQ5k
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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..."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAlbHPAn5GP
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"You can't be serious-"195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl4bXtlk4yd
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"It's that or everyone dies."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLAfo9ekBXb
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"Okay, we'll try." And Grayson clicks off the channel.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnUuwMz7te5
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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. 195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzDVpR5ooIi
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"Slate, are you there?"195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1imlJkTGFN
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"Cloud's rigged a bomb."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6echTv2xeN
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"How'd you know?!"195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkPWMIi94Fx
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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."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5MisOk6SP8
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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."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpbFEuv5ikY
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"Whatever, you'll handle it. I have to face off with Solayo right now, Bethany's with him!"195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNGaXpEOlpr
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"Shit. Why?"195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo1JLpXmgH3
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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. 195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcgSMKZhg59
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"What the hell are you doing here? How did you get that?!"195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqoKYsLMT9j
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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. 195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhbrjWFJWvR
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"You're diffrent. What happened to you?"195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIwuo0E05d1
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"Solayo, leave while you still can. There is a bomb."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8tNSAdtmu2
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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. 195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV0mIsU9XR8
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"Dip shit!" He yells, pulling on it. "Solayo! Solayo, come back!" 195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx1bYCKAxCm
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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. 195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVcygbg8Csw
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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."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbtZUlICUyg
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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-"195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjIWKfWO7z6
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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. 195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV8wEHOh0o2
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqMYpPb4coW
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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. 195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0MYofd7rgR
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvm9PEqzmg5
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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. 195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGJkAjb9JV1
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuDhjJdjpOB
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"Shit, we'll have to go back and go around another way if we can." Gideon curses. 195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrH4EAWxkHg
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuJxQdKhdtx
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"I'm sorry, I don't want to alarm you. But we located Cloud, he rigged a bomb." 195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi9c2f26Z5t
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She hands them her pass. "No! What about you? You can't leave us, Mum!" Lyla cries.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyfcZ2deqT0
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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?"195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhZtjNvTeyS
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0m41DrKSUt
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcJUu5LNCeI
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK1KJZpQvUr
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcd0VNJRg1M
"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!"195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ1iklcCy4w
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"And maybe that's why you're not dead. Consider yourself lucky." Cloud speaks up and turns around leaving.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVLSUPzwOjK
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8SspX0GUPm
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As they jump into the backseat, they see trucks everywhere driving around madly.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ93Qg4MjCoE
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo5HqHRcR4x
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtqHtGvfovC
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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgKGdUOdHpG
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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. 195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtdd8xKwRtK
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNNFpssS3sw
"How we feeling everybody?" He asks as he starts up the helicopter, blades rotating.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm70Vla5OTO
"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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgDpfgn7hiK
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"Three years."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmGAB353w4t
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXNu0hnlWIl
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkXuvIV6kvP
"Slate! What are you doing?! There are easier ways, we have a truck-" Mikey calls out.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ODGZNqhYJ
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ65G704XmGQ
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnb1x931JX5
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"Where are we goanna go?" Lyla asks. 195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgfsWIfJgtO
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"Anywhere WE want." Slate responds, pushing the helicopter forward and they fly off into the sun. 195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvPzvORZJUB
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Down below, several trucks park outside far away enough from The Compound which is located inside an old mine.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQJhy1BB27o
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1O2K3Oqzx2
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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-"195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjndNqQ7xqh
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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. 195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmTn3hoi7v7
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Before Solayo can say a word, it's a headshot and his knocked down. "Better now, buddy?" Mikey asks.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXMWagOio4O
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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."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5CBbnzwNXC
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡziDMwvWaNU
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Grayson and Mikey compose themselves, standing up now that Cloud is gone. 195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpprkPnzyDa
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"Where you think he goanna go?"195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXLCBjOWDJK
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4xV7OfJfXr
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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?"195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNFD57UkKZ4
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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. 195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwRE4SLfRxz
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Gideon takes the map from her when she gasps for air, panicking and sitting upright, clutching her neck and arms.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvMmZEd3xFt
"You're okay, I bandaged them for you." He tells her and she relaxes, looking around confused where they are. 195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCUil3QFSDX
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"You might want to give her one of the pills, Slate." Gideon tells him.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYyD3v0BWkZ
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM8ifuCZkgB
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"Bad news, they're gone, Gid."195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDhLStuyAFS
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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. 195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9m6iR1WckV
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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. 195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsEvgUqPWtz
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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.195Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbZaXbjOFFY
