Slate, Lyla, Gideon, Paisley and Bethany at each of their own respective tables are packing tinned food into crates, aprons and hair nets donned. 191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeKqxqQRBrU
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlyXDqwhr4L
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"Can we talk outside?"191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMEeAxXVkxP
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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?"191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkwc9pkqMpj
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And she leaves, no one answering her. 191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtlte2beLrZ
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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...191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtXqjOiVnA5
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh6pNGLD1qL
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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."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJYTIobNv6w
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"You want to finish what Slate started?"191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi11niHp0tv
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"Why not? Break them out. We're all in the position to help them."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrgRccieXB7
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡriZ2ygmXjt
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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. 191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEh8ylqNMIO
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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."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgnk4KPHCXE
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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."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyMsXgmaqYZ
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"What?"191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8JmKwZo5Oi
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"Crashback."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzzbYRb9PQr
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"But that won't undo the last few years of-"191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3DmCB2WW4n
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMVJ9vCJAjw
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ84bf0Q8nWb
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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."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtoYqn7xatN
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"Like his leadership skills?"191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPJ9CuIs4Yz
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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."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbpkRgIbah1
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"So how do we do that? His skills are still something that would be a spot target."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrs7qoI5ihN
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"Well, it's going to leave two holes in his head. They'll heal, but-"191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5GEMeqZrPj
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"Shit."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgQFXMMbK7C
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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."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAPScVAVL10
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"And what about the rest?"191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCHq6HvTft0
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"They're fine, they can just keep doing their sorting task."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2AiWljeGCQ
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡURzaW4qJKx
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAkFwFUSA2H
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzKsaMSASX1
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPsr871XWfd
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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. 191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ916FYj6iCg
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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. 191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX2nG0I7vIM
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjeJaYZX2QS
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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. 191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfLHJQgUdQM
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHE4hWGrT51
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUSFTgIz1CJ
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTOXMw7ecAr
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKuUriZqo4f
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"I wouldn't play with that if I were you. The last person who did was severed from me."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJSQmmKClP4
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Says a voice, female. "Hello?" He calls out. No reply is heard.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOz1z7jSQa5
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"Why am I here? What am I supposed to do?!" He yells out fustrated. "Who am I?"191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjGqu8YfWSM
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"Your heart knows who you are and you know what you are supposed to do."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg705cfSQOL
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsifm4sggBE
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBadnOFNiAp
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZsHZLbdRcW
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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-191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcASBalTeAy
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And then his eyes widen, he sits up straight and looks them both in the eyes. 191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj1f7QlkaLT
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"Do you know who you are? Who we are?"191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTXMkxceRlj
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"Slate. You both are the leaders, Ester and Mikey. What have you both done? You're monsters."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlf2Yfy0Dkh
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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. 191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ24CFHC7qdb
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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. 191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrwqkQnlt9y
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We'll meet up with ya'll later outside. We'll run you a distraction."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRvnMHZldLO
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnWA8oWsgyi
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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. 191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr6oekhYJSj
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVKKNdBEFjy
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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. 191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUkjuwHE9Kr
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSr2E4nZ34y
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuFDLEaoDma
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu7etQ1YRX3
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We ran outside for help and the guards took her away, proably to triage."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm5tet8GQUe
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡotuKpjkl1D
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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."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnEKVtoD6sT
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlkANJkyTav
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlgFntpcYTX
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"Why are we doing this?" Gideon asks. 191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrqyGCjxO4V
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"You might understand once you've taken it."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtPeiVl1jon
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Lyla and Gideon shrug, downing them. Paisley just looks at them. "Paisley."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZx5rQymrnF
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"I don't need them, I'm not stupid like you all are."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVLlcxmF8JF
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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."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCRbzz8KXU4
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyXHZr9JjeZ
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDkGdgXKNfv
He roughly grips Murphy's arms pulling him back. "Woah, look at you." Murphy says, eyeing Slate up and down. 191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHXZzb5OWN3
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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."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSrfIfiXM7s
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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. 191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk9XrQc1H2u
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So fly away, Slate."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDzYiKUtMAF
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"I can't, I need to find, Beth."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeN75uaclXY
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"Uh, Infirmary I think. She was dragged out of the sorting room."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlKvWc92PQn
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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."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡROZwf6kvkM
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"Fucking psychotic bitches."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv9aeam2uJH
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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." 191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDv2l2rJo5V
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHbbI3ZavAh
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU28utrlN0y
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfbLMMCV2J2
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOnQHwBRdce
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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."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3gltMHIEwG
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2UFNW5d3dS
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"Uh, did Bethany come through here?" He asks a nurse hoping she won't realize isn't security.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYEhV7vWVI7
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"Bethany?"191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfMXcrOeNgQ
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"Short blonde hair, blue eyes, she... cut heself."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGzoM6D7pQJ
"Uh, yep. She's in with a doctor now. Solayo's personal office I think."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNfSa4enbab
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"Shit."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKgl9Mr2bfU
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"Are you okay? You don't look so good. The bandage on your head, is it bleeding?"191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfH1DeXjxb3
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwDmgHrqruP
"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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡllUsStoFbV
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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. 191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFM609jbRKH
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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-191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtR8PV5YsYP
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"Solayo! Come in!" Solayo's walkie talkie picks up. Solayo sighs and answers while he preps a needle for Bethany. 191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXkCvUnmAwd
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"What is it Grayson? I'm kind of busy right now playing doctor."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrioQMiSj4G
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"You won't believe what I and Mikey just saw-"191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjVMHRFDERY
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"What?"191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJYFNZx6fJ1
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"There is a bomb! Cloud NO joke rigged up a bomb."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKKKH600Mgz
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"Come on-"191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcW5hLGO7dn
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"We're going to evacuate everyone."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3LqUSMzsB7
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"Grayson, we can't. This place is too large for that and there are to many people for that."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0r6sVRmqKX
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"But-"191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuFPdJYYk0w
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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..."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMUu7pubDWM
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"You can't be serious-"191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5MisH4V2uH
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"It's that or everyone dies."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEopDNgrFdl
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"Okay, we'll try." And Grayson clicks off the channel.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkXJ8U9W2XL
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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. 191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5HIflRQlmc
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"Slate, are you there?"191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPAUAcmcbSX
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"Cloud's rigged a bomb."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqknk7PuC6N
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"How'd you know?!"191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbVAuWy6V2o
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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."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ0fTOyzKQa
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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."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB5aggmPqWr
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"Whatever, you'll handle it. I have to face off with Solayo right now, Bethany's with him!"191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwD9XNf779w
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"Shit. Why?"191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKUeJfe8uzd
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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. 191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1IWAacXnCH
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"What the hell are you doing here? How did you get that?!"191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPcoycvgC3F
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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. 191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwu3kqQVjTz
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"You're diffrent. What happened to you?"191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡToUrCv2jef
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"Solayo, leave while you still can. There is a bomb."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwmjleJxqyw
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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. 191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk2SuXdIfaS
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"Dip shit!" He yells, pulling on it. "Solayo! Solayo, come back!" 191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc81AIwGeu0
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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. 191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIoxAozb8Zd
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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."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB6h9nFQ7Nz
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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-"191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMpFE55EyJT
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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. 191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ80t6VTPOBX
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjy4nztoqoi
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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. 191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbeLFUe3esP
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzBAX7CydDK
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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. 191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4DgRPiI4hw
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0wl8AYv4sD
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"Shit, we'll have to go back and go around another way if we can." Gideon curses. 191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiN7nBJvWzV
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2VeYEmSigi
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"I'm sorry, I don't want to alarm you. But we located Cloud, he rigged a bomb." 191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXOMO1DSC1J
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She hands them her pass. "No! What about you? You can't leave us, Mum!" Lyla cries.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDqQGxLE5F3
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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?"191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUIEno5xCST
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ08KuX600iK
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtvINIdMU9p
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIypFePmS5q
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqY4BsxSnAy
"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!"191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYqvah2kZZi
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"And maybe that's why you're not dead. Consider yourself lucky." Cloud speaks up and turns around leaving.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtOnSZ9Ci6t
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBCAMzjzJLe
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As they jump into the backseat, they see trucks everywhere driving around madly.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqNrmHmQWve
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVTtH8etZhd
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH0el2j9tJe
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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv7fAJJdpbY
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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. 191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡicrqhMtKll
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyqFs8bIwud
"How we feeling everybody?" He asks as he starts up the helicopter, blades rotating.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0SI68xRfly
"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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwGrJiM8F4g
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"Three years."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5atOFKi99d
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1PYfbhpFHc
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgZHm86gzWP
"Slate! What are you doing?! There are easier ways, we have a truck-" Mikey calls out.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6OJ807x1Ru
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ42g9WBPGxE
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOISNOWGav9
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"Where are we goanna go?" Lyla asks. 191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEGJ9hLy3ng
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"Anywhere WE want." Slate responds, pushing the helicopter forward and they fly off into the sun. 191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡldDPAwhDsw
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Down below, several trucks park outside far away enough from The Compound which is located inside an old mine.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOJIgAGF6sb
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi5xpg95tKp
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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-"191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC0sFBabjlM
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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. 191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNnr2HHbDL8
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Before Solayo can say a word, it's a headshot and his knocked down. "Better now, buddy?" Mikey asks.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLr78pqtX8E
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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."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsbCcFwskgu
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7UYdeKCRFe
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Grayson and Mikey compose themselves, standing up now that Cloud is gone. 191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0ApCmJlo4q
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"Where you think he goanna go?"191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt0OB0Mf0Ll
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF3ufcPCUJp
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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?"191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6yHbAiIzrd
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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. 191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxS0k1qW5tG
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Gideon takes the map from her when she gasps for air, panicking and sitting upright, clutching her neck and arms.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Y3rgwFK6K
"You're okay, I bandaged them for you." He tells her and she relaxes, looking around confused where they are. 191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWMOnfxfgXR
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"You might want to give her one of the pills, Slate." Gideon tells him.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjVqHDguYAb
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ76RrBPa7yX
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"Bad news, they're gone, Gid."191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdP4gqAeNxC
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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. 191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlsnyW5pUAM
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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. 191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaoLmZhOXYa
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp77UZTnqYz
