Slate, Lyla, Gideon, Paisley and Bethany at each of their own respective tables are packing tinned food into crates, aprons and hair nets donned. 158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd7nKNBcO6e
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1y8sGNIWgK
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"Can we talk outside?"158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk2OgI3GWPm
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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?"158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ590ozlZH6z
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And she leaves, no one answering her. 158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1cOWHZ9fhF
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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...158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgqbjK0bpLq
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnsgHgeHk7d
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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."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPL7I3kQ5zN
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"You want to finish what Slate started?"158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI3S10tkX4f
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"Why not? Break them out. We're all in the position to help them."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaxbkdft6F9
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf94KZwqYmd
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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. 158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcuMsgVFlgN
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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."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3uAJqHfQq3
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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."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp64rJgiJH3
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"What?"158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYXuiLcwqvU
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"Crashback."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYVK87mHLgM
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"But that won't undo the last few years of-"158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ78QUcoAC3M
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡml2LWbHHbe
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd89w6DKdE8
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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."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiR7p6gEPW2
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"Like his leadership skills?"158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMaBjXrQvqW
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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."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs2WRnGwYny
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"So how do we do that? His skills are still something that would be a spot target."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4R3abMyCd0
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"Well, it's going to leave two holes in his head. They'll heal, but-"158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2HAea5nLhk
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"Shit."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbEnKz45uh2
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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."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvC7iUtSSQ4
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"And what about the rest?"158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUefnjchxlY
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"They're fine, they can just keep doing their sorting task."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2gpZD6Ag9E
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv4LPo8PGHe
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzIirs2uScM
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnJJVCkbHnj
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3lykTpWchI
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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. 158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbPr5x3DemO
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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. 158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkbrWKd4LFt
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv4xKZyzUIt
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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. 158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOMSzy7uTt2
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ueGzgwWUI
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm64S5u11Ua
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡouzfITMyKQ
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB6GVR0iGzx
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"I wouldn't play with that if I were you. The last person who did was severed from me."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡALV9b5lEy2
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Says a voice, female. "Hello?" He calls out. No reply is heard.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDasibklk2g
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"Why am I here? What am I supposed to do?!" He yells out fustrated. "Who am I?"158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5MCRLnrJ5U
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"Your heart knows who you are and you know what you are supposed to do."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLznQvanxvr
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ18pJHKGzoy
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXeLAFQxAN8
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2TJlgT8t2r
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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-158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK9AFSoSnqP
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And then his eyes widen, he sits up straight and looks them both in the eyes. 158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtoR9Vdd5gw
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"Do you know who you are? Who we are?"158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSWYivy75bq
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"Slate. You both are the leaders, Ester and Mikey. What have you both done? You're monsters."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVtNwlWWVv1
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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. 158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6j6D8g0vz2
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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. 158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx5NVr9Qv5u
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We'll meet up with ya'll later outside. We'll run you a distraction."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBmXj3eMJi8
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzizIiJLQfY
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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. 158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh0eAVS0DQB
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ2nh8uv8jB
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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. 158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs5EcC4uIsV
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKOjS21gze8
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7rOE3HwTMP
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMIlj3MCTM4
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We ran outside for help and the guards took her away, proably to triage."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwqt8Do1kr0
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU6A524yQcR
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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."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡND0gNTcX9Y
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvdssvUGVIm
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBFmnAJozBo
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"Why are we doing this?" Gideon asks. 158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe0IF8Uhn7j
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"You might understand once you've taken it."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZCRt5Oweam
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Lyla and Gideon shrug, downing them. Paisley just looks at them. "Paisley."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiX2ccqRprZ
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"I don't need them, I'm not stupid like you all are."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVOuNk2OMEs
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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."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3KNfexxbpr
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkR3SjJEHeq
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH5EswbHxSD
He roughly grips Murphy's arms pulling him back. "Woah, look at you." Murphy says, eyeing Slate up and down. 158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp2XoHJTox7
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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."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHTRfpRti1E
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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. 158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS6bAwuAhBR
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So fly away, Slate."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDSQsruSrfv
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"I can't, I need to find, Beth."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxyZf6CXayG
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"Uh, Infirmary I think. She was dragged out of the sorting room."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk4fIAqHwKI
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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."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWGrh2xWfLp
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"Fucking psychotic bitches."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaeLTnpNGY5
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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." 158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSn2dACVD5O
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1a8I1tVaqu
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw2RTUveL9G
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRI9Uc69CS0
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIunDZpQqSO
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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."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIlJTBQIVGg
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡidspKd6XyN
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"Uh, did Bethany come through here?" He asks a nurse hoping she won't realize isn't security.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKniK5jqzRU
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"Bethany?"158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡztq4XE5Dtt
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"Short blonde hair, blue eyes, she... cut heself."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp05Di2AZdb
"Uh, yep. She's in with a doctor now. Solayo's personal office I think."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCGNk5uu5hS
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"Are you okay? You don't look so good. The bandage on your head, is it bleeding?"158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp0haytpOcJ
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIdxheWCJYV
"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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTgWBLbt0Au
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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. 158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzgZh0hNhEP
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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-158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU7FOZkwnXb
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"Solayo! Come in!" Solayo's walkie talkie picks up. Solayo sighs and answers while he preps a needle for Bethany. 158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDeneIueWJY
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"What is it Grayson? I'm kind of busy right now playing doctor."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxoUkBcIV0n
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"You won't believe what I and Mikey just saw-"158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV9dTwfRBZA
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"What?"158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5HEIzkRQDM
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"There is a bomb! Cloud NO joke rigged up a bomb."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhQ0vshiXIQ
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"Come on-"158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGpsZmaEIvd
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"We're going to evacuate everyone."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe8H2cNB2lV
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"Grayson, we can't. This place is too large for that and there are to many people for that."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbeT6OmNcmo
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"But-"158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdn23ycsWHW
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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..."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvOgxCpx0uY
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"You can't be serious-"158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBiSsaSVz3V
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"It's that or everyone dies."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXfiEo9hPWW
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"Okay, we'll try." And Grayson clicks off the channel.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfqIVXDUdXV
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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. 158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnVw1zrracH
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"Slate, are you there?"158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzRxfPh3dWZ
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"Cloud's rigged a bomb."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXSPd9TWIda
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"How'd you know?!"158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4LxFFl4mdP
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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."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4BGj71f2or
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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."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYhg5Dp4CYy
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"Whatever, you'll handle it. I have to face off with Solayo right now, Bethany's with him!"158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmkbEUIFeLY
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"Shit. Why?"158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4S9CKJt30K
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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. 158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7DafbQYuUW
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"What the hell are you doing here? How did you get that?!"158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNLoy5pLMfi
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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. 158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzIjTNjqOtw
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"You're diffrent. What happened to you?"158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAvNMVpG7yr
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"Solayo, leave while you still can. There is a bomb."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2496MHmCtN
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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. 158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlYW2HwH4ZT
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"Dip shit!" He yells, pulling on it. "Solayo! Solayo, come back!" 158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPko6iubIDK
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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. 158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡevIGn7LMuc
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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."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoiQoyhhfwi
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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-"158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0qVRemCPmU
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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. 158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtYArBQrqdP
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQFaVMn16ta
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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. 158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxNeMWlvnAO
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMIc58l500r
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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. 158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIxsB57eb0h
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzcpwHeDYNA
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"Shit, we'll have to go back and go around another way if we can." Gideon curses. 158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy40OQGX0Qs
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8LH10HO0wD
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"I'm sorry, I don't want to alarm you. But we located Cloud, he rigged a bomb." 158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ77BTvnma9e
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She hands them her pass. "No! What about you? You can't leave us, Mum!" Lyla cries.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt766LyeeZD
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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?"158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ74Oky9tZlR
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF45MLPrRTy
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj1ejtOplnu
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuFM6pG2WDC
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQbuJZwCye6
"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!"158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzBVzP357un
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"And maybe that's why you're not dead. Consider yourself lucky." Cloud speaks up and turns around leaving.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKiMwNzV53V
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKj6JHOHddo
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As they jump into the backseat, they see trucks everywhere driving around madly.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtvQcN8EF8j
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyrPDwxOPiW
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ82KpVMyaGh
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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG2xxD3QukX
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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. 158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5lTBAFHdnV
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOL1uEsPuao
"How we feeling everybody?" He asks as he starts up the helicopter, blades rotating.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2TULYqTmCa
"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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJEJraJ82VL
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"Three years."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd2rMZGWQWf
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIEfp1Y0PDr
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKu1qQnFurS
"Slate! What are you doing?! There are easier ways, we have a truck-" Mikey calls out.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjpUfyHBmJ5
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3sAerxiwUE
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJEiNFzQjQg
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"Where are we goanna go?" Lyla asks. 158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOvtnv4veUv
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"Anywhere WE want." Slate responds, pushing the helicopter forward and they fly off into the sun. 158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw9aRYH4ZEo
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Down below, several trucks park outside far away enough from The Compound which is located inside an old mine.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLipKJQjIUi
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP98vOrl4cw
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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-"158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ2Wle3CGX0
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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. 158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeKmrLGHmM8
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Before Solayo can say a word, it's a headshot and his knocked down. "Better now, buddy?" Mikey asks.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP6rLncMkMU
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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."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1lbbVsV3zb
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt83nkJ1sTm
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Grayson and Mikey compose themselves, standing up now that Cloud is gone. 158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVkANlUiryU
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"Where you think he goanna go?"158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh7qHwKlPKp
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp90LrZIs64
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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?"158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrpSh6whpJd
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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. 158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCUAWDQPhSF
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Gideon takes the map from her when she gasps for air, panicking and sitting upright, clutching her neck and arms.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBgVasM6HKz
"You're okay, I bandaged them for you." He tells her and she relaxes, looking around confused where they are. 158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP0xPDkTb4k
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"You might want to give her one of the pills, Slate." Gideon tells him.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡewMkaYUQxI
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYk4XZcTejD
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"Bad news, they're gone, Gid."158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0EAY4Gq6km
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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. 158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ11RPLgq27f
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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. 158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrUusRFoZja
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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.158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMGhVkAh7jr
