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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGG39FWeIeo
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"Can we talk outside?"190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSE9GQcdi8t
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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?"190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ2iXajo05J
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And she leaves, no one answering her. 190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVElqeIFO7W
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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...190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPCXFQEeE6z
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4l9CN7PO51
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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."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgA72fZ8awW
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"You want to finish what Slate started?"190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDK9MRj5QIo
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"Why not? Break them out. We're all in the position to help them."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdi5eQovYfU
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdYIayyEY2J
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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. 190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKP8fk6inkT
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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."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1bHjBGiH9P
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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."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUoKD9n76lj
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"What?"190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2bwyDm5dDN
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"Crashback."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡli2xbgGR0X
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"But that won't undo the last few years of-"190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0CtqOIJ3D7
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSnzwbLJBDf
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡweB5UJ6yAN
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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."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0iR1XjSBD3
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"Like his leadership skills?"190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfnpoOecbj0
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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."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwkHBzzBoZQ
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"So how do we do that? His skills are still something that would be a spot target."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpozTkFjJmP
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"Well, it's going to leave two holes in his head. They'll heal, but-"190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWKOH6i5StE
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"Shit."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXZsm00cqSk
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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."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYUuNAe3zMg
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"And what about the rest?"190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwUBoQkqwjA
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"They're fine, they can just keep doing their sorting task."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSFjF1YGMPF
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt1s9F34BKd
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCRUyDWfFJz
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXRELbYuy3t
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC4EA0bjKDg
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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. 190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT4D5Dmtkgj
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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. 190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe7YZJihRzc
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Cec3LV0P1
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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. 190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWQfnOZJ7pn
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBfSlfoDTTz
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYVGXSsteBx
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7o6JoecqtH
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHffmIXwSGG
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"I wouldn't play with that if I were you. The last person who did was severed from me."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡupCd6JT7s9
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Says a voice, female. "Hello?" He calls out. No reply is heard.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu4dmM0h2U3
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"Why am I here? What am I supposed to do?!" He yells out fustrated. "Who am I?"190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡprOxMeANNj
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"Your heart knows who you are and you know what you are supposed to do."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡecq5OdCJSR
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXIhOUJsglg
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ELGg3LJeE
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJsocUPA7gG
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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-190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8XnSkcgzHu
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And then his eyes widen, he sits up straight and looks them both in the eyes. 190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKO3AcnDJ0V
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"Do you know who you are? Who we are?"190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSVPRDWTY6I
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"Slate. You both are the leaders, Ester and Mikey. What have you both done? You're monsters."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvnt1JT7Rdq
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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. 190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwYhvJWHV0V
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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. 190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw5eaDkDbTL
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We'll meet up with ya'll later outside. We'll run you a distraction."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtIEKRbk6RG
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjqFqm1xNmT
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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. 190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJnS1xjsItX
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ70m9YIDRGI
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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. 190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQL0c8uaCr6
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSCURH7HRxw
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡINVVz9estX
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSBXoky8JQv
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We ran outside for help and the guards took her away, proably to triage."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCTEoUFIfwM
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKGjg2Zaver
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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."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9l7Aq8EVUJ
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8IUFOXanKp
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKJPc4j1yrQ
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"Why are we doing this?" Gideon asks. 190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjz23rbE7LK
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"You might understand once you've taken it."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCRYDyiuK0C
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Lyla and Gideon shrug, downing them. Paisley just looks at them. "Paisley."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLcow6JLdfO
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"I don't need them, I'm not stupid like you all are."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡplukAjRyaO
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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."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyQSi5GOOc9
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ97UtCWBBT0
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoE2TXrrX5z
He roughly grips Murphy's arms pulling him back. "Woah, look at you." Murphy says, eyeing Slate up and down. 190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzr5iSNOZt3
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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."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbZaaugovuM
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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. 190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf8ISYHiLCn
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So fly away, Slate."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIX4uaJacYh
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"I can't, I need to find, Beth."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6p55wNbyyR
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"Uh, Infirmary I think. She was dragged out of the sorting room."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPj7RFG3hgC
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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."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPuFfIMfliD
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"Fucking psychotic bitches."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB2izqr62r5
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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." 190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeCVsCpETa3
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqoGxPiXQY7
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiXw1Wgk3Ol
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5C9FSP3GDq
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡszTFa1CPvs
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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."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOpMoqBHxvx
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpHtqltrShI
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"Uh, did Bethany come through here?" He asks a nurse hoping she won't realize isn't security.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFSlTO9EvOu
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"Bethany?"190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdtpKDde6FF
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"Short blonde hair, blue eyes, she... cut heself."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡePxg5BHtYK
"Uh, yep. She's in with a doctor now. Solayo's personal office I think."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgvpl2NjAmL
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"Are you okay? You don't look so good. The bandage on your head, is it bleeding?"190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3yGhDefFrB
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtm5BZmQb3j
"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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZoYdQ333ng
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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. 190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbOAARy72Yi
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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-190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA2b9wbp5e1
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"Solayo! Come in!" Solayo's walkie talkie picks up. Solayo sighs and answers while he preps a needle for Bethany. 190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU66oxW3ISX
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"What is it Grayson? I'm kind of busy right now playing doctor."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVjtMCnVRsz
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"You won't believe what I and Mikey just saw-"190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5V0M9nxPy5
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"What?"190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCUJvOX5Lhf
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"There is a bomb! Cloud NO joke rigged up a bomb."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡubIbfLjfd1
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"Come on-"190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1gv79V92LX
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"We're going to evacuate everyone."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA2B77Vr6qI
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"Grayson, we can't. This place is too large for that and there are to many people for that."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQU0xrC4a7j
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"But-"190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5iYe4nHQOc
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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..."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX79A8uXvqU
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"You can't be serious-"190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGW3qMbG1zx
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"It's that or everyone dies."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ41pPZ3dagW
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"Okay, we'll try." And Grayson clicks off the channel.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXrcobX8QFD
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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. 190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxzApC7qOIR
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"Slate, are you there?"190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvseRXNvSCF
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"Cloud's rigged a bomb."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡywCbYvDWQn
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"How'd you know?!"190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtHwbMVgJJ8
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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."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrDPH82ws77
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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."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm5PZBbqALH
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"Whatever, you'll handle it. I have to face off with Solayo right now, Bethany's with him!"190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj3ctHqaEn3
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"Shit. Why?"190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFXBMFU5k8Y
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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. 190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy4JFP89C1m
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"What the hell are you doing here? How did you get that?!"190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRamfcz3ZSB
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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. 190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWza50M8MTL
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"You're diffrent. What happened to you?"190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ8VCgj4JBp
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"Solayo, leave while you still can. There is a bomb."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoYxL2OgFq9
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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. 190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFtiCIR30Bm
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"Dip shit!" He yells, pulling on it. "Solayo! Solayo, come back!" 190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2TkVbdSa2p
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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. 190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLMyvnDEIjv
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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."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIiksUTOOvk
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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-"190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZIgw6Ludx7
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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. 190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXMkzeTWHox
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1NofqxdIuY
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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. 190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxZjHJyJFq3
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrHx5rYlJ3I
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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. 190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIkR9Xgs8Rq
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBotVn8Xksm
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"Shit, we'll have to go back and go around another way if we can." Gideon curses. 190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrFZ20rRazV
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvk6vO32Xi3
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"I'm sorry, I don't want to alarm you. But we located Cloud, he rigged a bomb." 190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJPSQt7cXi1
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She hands them her pass. "No! What about you? You can't leave us, Mum!" Lyla cries.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkMJWkhKkYx
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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?"190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVG3k8gPbt5
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuKkOu3c8w9
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ66Q1Siryc
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAr9sO0h0x1
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf6ZhUxolZ6
"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!"190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf3f7iWnJKL
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"And maybe that's why you're not dead. Consider yourself lucky." Cloud speaks up and turns around leaving.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Q4LJbAhkK
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqI3KglXhCz
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As they jump into the backseat, they see trucks everywhere driving around madly.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl8Aa7hzAIZ
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUuewPb3CYv
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiSxFtv4Kfy
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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCbZu6srLol
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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. 190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU9JScw685N
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu4Dih4CKTm
"How we feeling everybody?" He asks as he starts up the helicopter, blades rotating.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡppTE3PZoFy
"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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBPsoRGMbg1
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"Three years."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSgXH5jXijM
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2TU9mt2Uiw
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFUuJGOOpFy
"Slate! What are you doing?! There are easier ways, we have a truck-" Mikey calls out.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpNXj1D5LDK
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsCQEXyl4Zg
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuF41jcdem2
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"Where are we goanna go?" Lyla asks. 190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDsbh1JWAFc
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"Anywhere WE want." Slate responds, pushing the helicopter forward and they fly off into the sun. 190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7S4zi8anaT
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Down below, several trucks park outside far away enough from The Compound which is located inside an old mine.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMdjywAwEah
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJYF1Vp7zvl
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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-"190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsHJlNFQ6V2
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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. 190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr1z3lr1Lqj
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Before Solayo can say a word, it's a headshot and his knocked down. "Better now, buddy?" Mikey asks.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ36SRClQKOZ
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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."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLtRCRRjHmT
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTG0kCq6EAS
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Grayson and Mikey compose themselves, standing up now that Cloud is gone. 190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhTeX9smUqF
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"Where you think he goanna go?"190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrKHCjjYuTD
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxGw1OQbgJI
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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?"190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrW1sKHCHpV
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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. 190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrOtxlQzITp
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Gideon takes the map from her when she gasps for air, panicking and sitting upright, clutching her neck and arms.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzy5FhkcsuS
"You're okay, I bandaged them for you." He tells her and she relaxes, looking around confused where they are. 190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgAWXMVuJ9t
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"You might want to give her one of the pills, Slate." Gideon tells him.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaj2a9yV6Ux
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYdgpc0akBo
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"Bad news, they're gone, Gid."190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpFDNdJMe9f
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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. 190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGlMscSeHC3
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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. 190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeYb38aZMyN
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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.190Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFmlJrM45HB
