Slate, Lyla, Gideon, Paisley and Bethany at each of their own respective tables are packing tinned food into crates, aprons and hair nets donned. 204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFSihh3iDcn
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjXMRkcVi3Y
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"Can we talk outside?"204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡghUDoa9F2Q
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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?"204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuW0JPVw17z
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And she leaves, no one answering her. 204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGefmsjNPfn
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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...204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaZWleVJJXi
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwQ4i97aU1O
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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."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDwAcUgmYeI
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"You want to finish what Slate started?"204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxhYHioMvmU
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"Why not? Break them out. We're all in the position to help them."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Ni5xMWLXQ
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBuAjmyzGfw
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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. 204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTGg5yysCS4
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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."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBMnAfoocg6
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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."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbqAC7QzKj8
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"What?"204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCQuj9qbJib
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"Crashback."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkF696lvgMw
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"But that won't undo the last few years of-"204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC8JBMj1W5u
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRwwAeitWWg
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ00NiiyBS9o
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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."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD1BWeXuVgY
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"Like his leadership skills?"204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8KliLZfKWh
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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."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ33s2EfnOOg
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"So how do we do that? His skills are still something that would be a spot target."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqTbECUAUEc
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"Well, it's going to leave two holes in his head. They'll heal, but-"204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡap83VVaTz9
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"Shit."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeTgLtx5uIj
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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."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwrV44hrL7S
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"And what about the rest?"204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5m5oPrAFCx
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"They're fine, they can just keep doing their sorting task."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsL20vhxei5
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmGdGNC09Q1
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCQvOnEuWBh
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Wbxkpfk5X
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA5WPWw0NYG
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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. 204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwS8TF4kW00
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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. 204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN6u6xKGwvx
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYQv0aIlK76
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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. 204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW1sA48pqpK
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcUAxiXZzmb
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRLr4ivNZjE
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyBxXJIqS7i
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIAFNJKUxv1
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"I wouldn't play with that if I were you. The last person who did was severed from me."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEkSy1o1F0E
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Says a voice, female. "Hello?" He calls out. No reply is heard.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO4mijAMMYl
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"Why am I here? What am I supposed to do?!" He yells out fustrated. "Who am I?"204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQyC6b9AQmm
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"Your heart knows who you are and you know what you are supposed to do."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqpQT4My9XL
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡurdvUf5bAE
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgNCfi5Wf6G
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyxlTMBCSXC
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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-204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8hzEsCYlzw
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And then his eyes widen, he sits up straight and looks them both in the eyes. 204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFiEhql04rr
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"Do you know who you are? Who we are?"204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj7NAow17hO
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"Slate. You both are the leaders, Ester and Mikey. What have you both done? You're monsters."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxaM6Yy63bH
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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. 204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpizjUwYMFj
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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. 204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWoasfDOUvZ
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We'll meet up with ya'll later outside. We'll run you a distraction."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmJHiI0fGnw
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyzfoxub14q
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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. 204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBgerdPM8dF
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdxQa2mAmFa
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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. 204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgcEB7gyw5c
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKT5U8aqTET
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiUCJQ1OigK
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ36e39pwPZ
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We ran outside for help and the guards took her away, proably to triage."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTFuW76bWkC
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe7BMeOOO9V
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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."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOSiq0VNFJ3
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡszM0TbiNyV
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSM4Kqt4Bvo
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"Why are we doing this?" Gideon asks. 204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB1BWwkyjt2
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"You might understand once you've taken it."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ74rgMK26Yj
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Lyla and Gideon shrug, downing them. Paisley just looks at them. "Paisley."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYvpOEdBhnF
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"I don't need them, I'm not stupid like you all are."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcx0JuCs2c4
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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."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3CN1e21C2b
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeqNR0DEEtQ
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtz8wSSG5OF
He roughly grips Murphy's arms pulling him back. "Woah, look at you." Murphy says, eyeing Slate up and down. 204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDJAWWvbLi9
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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."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhYDKx9bG6m
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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. 204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdOkWlNnpWQ
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So fly away, Slate."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoTHcH4ERWV
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"I can't, I need to find, Beth."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAHw48uFEaA
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"Uh, Infirmary I think. She was dragged out of the sorting room."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyZQHeVjasr
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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."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQbxiOJwEWO
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"Fucking psychotic bitches."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCB33SPGjmG
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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." 204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXAHeeGu8ey
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTuLYWiiz0H
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2bABx6pMib
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtBjGmmozM6
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpw2reYJJtG
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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."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBfNu2qKfh2
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzwG8L0c6Nh
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"Uh, did Bethany come through here?" He asks a nurse hoping she won't realize isn't security.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyU6N5wu7lJ
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"Bethany?"204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJtLEvOs0na
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"Short blonde hair, blue eyes, she... cut heself."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTetHyZhk3y
"Uh, yep. She's in with a doctor now. Solayo's personal office I think."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVT3XGpmQXQ
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"Shit."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuY5FN4UYPh
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"Are you okay? You don't look so good. The bandage on your head, is it bleeding?"204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWFwvleMNSX
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLmwRElcNfN
"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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAslN3dKUSd
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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. 204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL2j5OV3r1c
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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-204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlzaNf8oWcY
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"Solayo! Come in!" Solayo's walkie talkie picks up. Solayo sighs and answers while he preps a needle for Bethany. 204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoy0jwXftbj
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"What is it Grayson? I'm kind of busy right now playing doctor."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDRmR6tU3gK
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"You won't believe what I and Mikey just saw-"204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTwVFiEkmo3
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"What?"204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMQxX1CRnfs
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"There is a bomb! Cloud NO joke rigged up a bomb."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzKruNEH0is
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"Come on-"204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc1vVugspPt
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"We're going to evacuate everyone."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnYqxxRGu7K
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"Grayson, we can't. This place is too large for that and there are to many people for that."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1THnFxJwNb
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"But-"204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf4xm7tQxva
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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..."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhSCmBJWDAu
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"You can't be serious-"204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCVXnv2SFMh
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"It's that or everyone dies."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG0x5jK8gte
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"Okay, we'll try." And Grayson clicks off the channel.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡas1jq8lfUi
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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. 204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8jSBKkzP7F
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"Slate, are you there?"204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBbM0lMNj1G
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"Cloud's rigged a bomb."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3nGeAyTEoj
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"How'd you know?!"204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF4yRDfOBAX
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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."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiTl3AXYK6C
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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."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD3gjPSW3r3
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"Whatever, you'll handle it. I have to face off with Solayo right now, Bethany's with him!"204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy6QIaCJlhY
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"Shit. Why?"204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsisgKP0074
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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. 204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuqtwZnQBXN
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"What the hell are you doing here? How did you get that?!"204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPeK180d1gW
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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. 204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡulTsvSZUg9
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"You're diffrent. What happened to you?"204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbXUOUp65hy
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"Solayo, leave while you still can. There is a bomb."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVRYKUNxFZf
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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. 204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0N3L9oVPYw
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"Dip shit!" He yells, pulling on it. "Solayo! Solayo, come back!" 204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtcGgHSJ1Qk
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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. 204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5I7hXdleOU
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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."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGb2EOovZOk
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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-"204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpkzcMeOKLw
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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. 204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyYRYJ7QCLu
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHQNX5mvOef
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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. 204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhHK3Hhr3ti
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡce4zn41TT8
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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. 204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAyihy9y7oq
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHaezj36EpZ
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"Shit, we'll have to go back and go around another way if we can." Gideon curses. 204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGCGmuzCIY6
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4bIlDUlZuq
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"I'm sorry, I don't want to alarm you. But we located Cloud, he rigged a bomb." 204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡluS6nO1KxD
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She hands them her pass. "No! What about you? You can't leave us, Mum!" Lyla cries.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrgrjqeHlRB
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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?"204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBDyaQ6fT32
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAaxzWN8YrF
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3YHYZfRrA6
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwZAKjRY9Qn
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnKDRrs0by3
"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!"204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkQFhzSoOnR
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"And maybe that's why you're not dead. Consider yourself lucky." Cloud speaks up and turns around leaving.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoELhnEMyI2
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡchjl4jESm0
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As they jump into the backseat, they see trucks everywhere driving around madly.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyWkMthbtm3
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvoZqCeTdbO
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBXUEFQrUUc
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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7RLrmgq50O
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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. 204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVj4lhCirxZ
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzCXS7HtPt4
"How we feeling everybody?" He asks as he starts up the helicopter, blades rotating.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9kGUEND5ux
"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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMXlN13Gz10
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"Three years."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvic6bhROI4
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBAmFMkBvWA
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmMwXKgTMwG
"Slate! What are you doing?! There are easier ways, we have a truck-" Mikey calls out.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡospDPGrzsN
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOuV8DuPJBV
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiptCqZaW41
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"Where are we goanna go?" Lyla asks. 204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4zgshxDtm3
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"Anywhere WE want." Slate responds, pushing the helicopter forward and they fly off into the sun. 204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2lYQAy3Mwt
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Down below, several trucks park outside far away enough from The Compound which is located inside an old mine.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGCweKpKbqd
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ35VSxVPpOw
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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-"204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVC4TEJuovA
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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. 204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqGE7xxeAw5
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Before Solayo can say a word, it's a headshot and his knocked down. "Better now, buddy?" Mikey asks.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXFwMk2Edcu
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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."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡajE3pJ0Ouj
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcM6eVkhpmm
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Grayson and Mikey compose themselves, standing up now that Cloud is gone. 204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1n2eZS1PCU
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"Where you think he goanna go?"204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnSeG4XkiJU
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfhbtMzpWo7
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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?"204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLHUfdhaAFK
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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. 204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsxPqhQAcxY
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Gideon takes the map from her when she gasps for air, panicking and sitting upright, clutching her neck and arms.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYDNh4NJh9w
"You're okay, I bandaged them for you." He tells her and she relaxes, looking around confused where they are. 204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGZCC6GNIOo
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"You might want to give her one of the pills, Slate." Gideon tells him.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡon4Hx3U3UW
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbKIfAONcU6
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"Bad news, they're gone, Gid."204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMileoXyETi
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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. 204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡofzfcWHMkz
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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. 204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs7l9ofFg1b
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ42sIQvsqmO
