Slate, Lyla, Gideon, Paisley and Bethany at each of their own respective tables are packing tinned food into crates, aprons and hair nets donned. 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAyAJD2p1he
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmSIP9O71x2
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"Can we talk outside?"151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpbZDYaUIE5
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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?"151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYwmiFHY0sP
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And she leaves, no one answering her. 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ37nhUK7i6i
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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...151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2suavsncWP
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2bsRlIWVkZ
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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."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDLU6O5QrI8
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"You want to finish what Slate started?"151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUGS8BUr600
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"Why not? Break them out. We're all in the position to help them."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1y2ImlKeLy
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKnIT1eOHMO
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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. 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg2BkX4kms9
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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."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ07uYwYU3Y
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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."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2VI9R1QPaR
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"What?"151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdCPkhNHqmW
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"Crashback."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1WwjSKZvZ2
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"But that won't undo the last few years of-"151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ11q8YcipT1
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyiQMp6AVn5
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4DaekD8NJ3
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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."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9LFzwi0ZLG
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"Like his leadership skills?"151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw39iIywQ19
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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."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ohHag7KGa
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"So how do we do that? His skills are still something that would be a spot target."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ758zpiODzm
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"Well, it's going to leave two holes in his head. They'll heal, but-"151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOOo1cb0A4U
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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."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtFzrJ6tDyj
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"And what about the rest?"151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPxmbwSef9V
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"They're fine, they can just keep doing their sorting task."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSgpn4go0zy
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZXlfQ786PT
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBmrDXyfdDS
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHGxbBBFkzd
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqbz27ehQRf
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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. 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnGez1dxL5u
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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. 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC8El9JcVDe
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIDa7swrSVt
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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. 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaPdrw3ShAk
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaWuEmyqpyp
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsfYmYLyyl6
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfc0k7GXqeF
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8wSBdTJeJO
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"I wouldn't play with that if I were you. The last person who did was severed from me."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjL4Jo7anzU
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Says a voice, female. "Hello?" He calls out. No reply is heard.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKmaHjrCiKp
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"Why am I here? What am I supposed to do?!" He yells out fustrated. "Who am I?"151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ8d5OB3XUt
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"Your heart knows who you are and you know what you are supposed to do."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQDRLl1d8UK
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTM75oPWTEh
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeSe7x6sJPf
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZbbadLLk7e
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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-151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp15esDt2Ja
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And then his eyes widen, he sits up straight and looks them both in the eyes. 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2eJihdcKq4
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"Do you know who you are? Who we are?"151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrvptutkiY3
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"Slate. You both are the leaders, Ester and Mikey. What have you both done? You're monsters."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaFCx2ZESz5
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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. 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzI4ayAP4v7
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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. 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWCrZhc4WiY
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We'll meet up with ya'll later outside. We'll run you a distraction."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYC3n3CL5AV
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZjfYahyXaF
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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. 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKKYXh6LhXU
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAYGnwX5GSR
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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. 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxc6wk9B1Iy
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNrIoulXGC4
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK4q8SOIDcM
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVUHTpZC5ip
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We ran outside for help and the guards took her away, proably to triage."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqfIqKsM3fn
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuh34yqgSbZ
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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."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoDlRRBWdq6
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1HLyx3Xbyy
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHA5cXWI2Zm
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"Why are we doing this?" Gideon asks. 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYHC1GbM0Ef
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"You might understand once you've taken it."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGxGRZ8x8xo
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Lyla and Gideon shrug, downing them. Paisley just looks at them. "Paisley."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ05ChyRqCKe
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"I don't need them, I'm not stupid like you all are."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBKH5OTALUC
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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."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjwnWaqc5g0
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL8tu7RkNEw
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu5UBLgy8Uk
He roughly grips Murphy's arms pulling him back. "Woah, look at you." Murphy says, eyeing Slate up and down. 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0gAB6yMBcR
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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."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIoWYDXu6SF
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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. 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJxhLG7C3BE
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So fly away, Slate."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpbl3GUdeSt
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"I can't, I need to find, Beth."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUb5rSLaGdx
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"Uh, Infirmary I think. She was dragged out of the sorting room."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtZFng7CAF2
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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."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSKEBm3JtKp
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"Fucking psychotic bitches."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYAU1irZst9
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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." 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡipzeYXGo9Y
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzGT70z7glw
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPDdSr2iA8X
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkPt5eQm1Lr
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVJ3F483ETw
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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."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEoH8BPKY0f
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHgJ7iQeKxD
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"Uh, did Bethany come through here?" He asks a nurse hoping she won't realize isn't security.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfBnJNkuPZo
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"Bethany?"151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1b4ZPxFxtu
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"Short blonde hair, blue eyes, she... cut heself."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdeySUD1ZXw
"Uh, yep. She's in with a doctor now. Solayo's personal office I think."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX0Y2r2bY2o
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"Shit."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO6U85y6JaK
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"Are you okay? You don't look so good. The bandage on your head, is it bleeding?"151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡStdOTx3voz
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXKw2QEodyy
"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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Aih6B3Qk4
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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. 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSFj9mptj5G
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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-151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlwdad9XHE0
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"Solayo! Come in!" Solayo's walkie talkie picks up. Solayo sighs and answers while he preps a needle for Bethany. 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBzBeGqSXLC
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"What is it Grayson? I'm kind of busy right now playing doctor."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOSIueysySY
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"You won't believe what I and Mikey just saw-"151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc5Qfq4arQN
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"What?"151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsVAlh11hHQ
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"There is a bomb! Cloud NO joke rigged up a bomb."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGqJz92YnHf
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"Come on-"151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnDiOvePoEB
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"We're going to evacuate everyone."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBH2Cv4ZMFB
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"Grayson, we can't. This place is too large for that and there are to many people for that."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTgz2u2qSTx
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"But-"151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwYIoQ3JaHL
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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..."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmtnhAGDW2R
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"You can't be serious-"151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj1GeNyJxCO
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"It's that or everyone dies."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlTAjGPZrsq
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"Okay, we'll try." And Grayson clicks off the channel.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEvqFqWCFlX
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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. 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo7DoIxsdE9
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"Slate, are you there?"151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLi3lhfROdq
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"Cloud's rigged a bomb."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9xuMWfAHRD
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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."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRJ3asIpKvL
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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."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUD1u9fXbZl
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"Whatever, you'll handle it. I have to face off with Solayo right now, Bethany's with him!"151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmXSa3CNWRB
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"Shit. Why?"151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCSNTC6cDle
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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. 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ2FvPXPgNO
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"What the hell are you doing here? How did you get that?!"151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDc5CtPhFej
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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. 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ6TqCJspUb
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"You're diffrent. What happened to you?"151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcHhnMYISey
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"Solayo, leave while you still can. There is a bomb."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiSNCnuxUkN
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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. 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWKRoHVMAnC
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"Dip shit!" He yells, pulling on it. "Solayo! Solayo, come back!" 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuBLyX5PMMj
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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. 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyEUqMiwwnV
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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."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzo51BZx948
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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-"151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdYC74GZ3TV
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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. 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrtPrkEzcZr
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwruokTqpSw
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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. 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW1oF30vkJS
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJogNE1qYHe
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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. 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2P6Oq0X5Nx
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf0eN71Di8w
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"Shit, we'll have to go back and go around another way if we can." Gideon curses. 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIMRakvXZ1c
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDTOeettEdC
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"I'm sorry, I don't want to alarm you. But we located Cloud, he rigged a bomb." 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnlFqYkRYPj
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She hands them her pass. "No! What about you? You can't leave us, Mum!" Lyla cries.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf8V7E9dTfR
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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?"151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ubPEhqB4C
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVlcqIjD2cI
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB6nV1tmtgN
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3nfJcOVz5h
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdfyTBwGfft
"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!"151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIOohFyYNYj
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"And maybe that's why you're not dead. Consider yourself lucky." Cloud speaks up and turns around leaving.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjAHhudjOiP
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn0cj7RrWM1
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As they jump into the backseat, they see trucks everywhere driving around madly.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTPuUtuOVHp
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7IxotKpxr6
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjcMtP5QvuP
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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJx8B1YCY5J
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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. 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWa3xZgV5Wx
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2vLgfMQf7C
"How we feeling everybody?" He asks as he starts up the helicopter, blades rotating.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbgy3fMdNqd
"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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPSqKteJlNC
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"Three years."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhij85MOStp
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzMBCwmohyI
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNFZg8jZ655
"Slate! What are you doing?! There are easier ways, we have a truck-" Mikey calls out.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUGkQhBlHb1
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfYYJ3X2wWO
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGdlMqLvzXj
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"Where are we goanna go?" Lyla asks. 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbcY9R6TN1L
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"Anywhere WE want." Slate responds, pushing the helicopter forward and they fly off into the sun. 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFliQRM3Tic
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Down below, several trucks park outside far away enough from The Compound which is located inside an old mine.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKbhB7aF7Rv
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQK0NL8oBqJ
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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-"151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRP13alYxCV
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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. 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRUZ0Bp8gEz
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Before Solayo can say a word, it's a headshot and his knocked down. "Better now, buddy?" Mikey asks.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLh6GDz8Yk8
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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."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxQBF6JlHAj
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH51WYlIi3M
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Grayson and Mikey compose themselves, standing up now that Cloud is gone. 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUIAbhr1rhY
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"Where you think he goanna go?"151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ19KjTpEykj
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnlhMy343Og
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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?"151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeIG5oCCYVG
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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. 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2csrmH1WJO
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Gideon takes the map from her when she gasps for air, panicking and sitting upright, clutching her neck and arms.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBu4E0OAT7t
"You're okay, I bandaged them for you." He tells her and she relaxes, looking around confused where they are. 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyyML1gd9iD
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"You might want to give her one of the pills, Slate." Gideon tells him.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb3pAJCdvnP
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfhBNkPy4RB
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"Bad news, they're gone, Gid."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOHocIcxY02
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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. 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN3TJCJQjWv
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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. 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIpZe2Aaiq8
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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.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5bFVntZUoj
