Slate, Lyla, Gideon, Paisley and Bethany at each of their own respective tables are packing tinned food into crates, aprons and hair nets donned. 92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3LQ5nQAX5Y
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkdZQpoX9oo
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"Can we talk outside?"92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu22Qlp5z5X
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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?"92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaHpg3zcSr3
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And she leaves, no one answering her. 92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB46t3HGwTA
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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...92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbeThcS9kaM
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBWiGD4dRYv
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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."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZMBqkt7rKV
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"You want to finish what Slate started?"92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡitUpK0DRHW
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"Why not? Break them out. We're all in the position to help them."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiCfx9bvhxH
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBb2PfGXOwp
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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. 92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg0J7zqHoSk
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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."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzzIzb1GUCL
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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."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2TZIZxayLc
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"What?"92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgVIU0yYiQ2
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"Crashback."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzJaJWe7QqI
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"But that won't undo the last few years of-"92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ87cXJPVjfy
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSqLtH0iHG5
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNPBjVYxQrC
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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."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBzJibUy2oC
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"Like his leadership skills?"92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCfoPNskaxG
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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."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOZtdIwZxt0
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"So how do we do that? His skills are still something that would be a spot target."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcqhOEIg94k
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"Well, it's going to leave two holes in his head. They'll heal, but-"92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqne0WZ3Set
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"Shit."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡijQzAr3ZVs
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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."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4QoTAtYtyO
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"And what about the rest?"92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5wKNx3eyXJ
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"They're fine, they can just keep doing their sorting task."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvaHvS7cdqr
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuV8hGBzBCP
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK1sHi5XEus
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDICEhpjoxm
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg48RRCb7Ku
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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. 92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4VUW9qbLmI
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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. 92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOJY3UYPKFH
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡneLYmXbG3a
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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. 92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaaYWVBHWqm
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmLo7tqBChG
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUe9Qt4ZNyR
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsnMG0nI4EL
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBOsJPtXN3H
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"I wouldn't play with that if I were you. The last person who did was severed from me."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAWLpBW5AXB
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Says a voice, female. "Hello?" He calls out. No reply is heard.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD4iTAzA34H
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"Why am I here? What am I supposed to do?!" He yells out fustrated. "Who am I?"92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3gjd47ynBv
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"Your heart knows who you are and you know what you are supposed to do."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2xPYSDyG8K
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqEa6ZUmdnv
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6mhupVNcEq
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5fIpTPm9SP
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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-92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1sFEMYU1YG
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And then his eyes widen, he sits up straight and looks them both in the eyes. 92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAFBghpQkwK
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"Do you know who you are? Who we are?"92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcBiGhRTkkb
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"Slate. You both are the leaders, Ester and Mikey. What have you both done? You're monsters."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAC2D9z0GSW
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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. 92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhztwlkOi9R
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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. 92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRNVSBbrkDk
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We'll meet up with ya'll later outside. We'll run you a distraction."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAUxbFUmfQl
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPYauax5n23
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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. 92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe40ekklCvP
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVwbsrIAriz
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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. 92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5xXF34olvg
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRodwxAXLKb
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGaD7lTMXzK
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡITuOteksWw
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We ran outside for help and the guards took her away, proably to triage."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYUcDcdJWGM
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlQXvX9cNVF
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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."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4jtll1BYuT
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlXIHWOOFe5
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVlsQ46L45a
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"Why are we doing this?" Gideon asks. 92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsutyYUAck6
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"You might understand once you've taken it."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGobQprC38p
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Lyla and Gideon shrug, downing them. Paisley just looks at them. "Paisley."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrBVAOpTRc7
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"I don't need them, I'm not stupid like you all are."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7jeokrS9Ud
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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."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf9Ykl5C6AC
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTYig1rOZb7
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC4vh3iNuxe
He roughly grips Murphy's arms pulling him back. "Woah, look at you." Murphy says, eyeing Slate up and down. 92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwNURmg3SPw
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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."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqhq99dhgJo
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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. 92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtjoIeHAUDK
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So fly away, Slate."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGJKDSifF5l
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"I can't, I need to find, Beth."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXJid5vXD87
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"Uh, Infirmary I think. She was dragged out of the sorting room."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ArG5B9zD2
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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."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxL02cy9kR1
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"Fucking psychotic bitches."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtHuuXigsG9
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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." 92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXhsTMcl2UO
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgX6s1O95R8
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOjfcCzXLAJ
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvxb2NSdwAX
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo2bXmBM6ri
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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."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwNlkXBVOpM
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbjuZBDx2Q8
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"Uh, did Bethany come through here?" He asks a nurse hoping she won't realize isn't security.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTp79WCjY7x
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"Bethany?"92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsanf8i8N95
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"Short blonde hair, blue eyes, she... cut heself."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡItYaKymXA3
"Uh, yep. She's in with a doctor now. Solayo's personal office I think."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG3tpzU3Puu
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"Shit."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh9aebVtgxT
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"Are you okay? You don't look so good. The bandage on your head, is it bleeding?"92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Cd1vdfBYS
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNQvGwFrnkd
"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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHk5ARdRRU4
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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. 92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa410VOo0bc
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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-92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUFjW0L2aEV
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"Solayo! Come in!" Solayo's walkie talkie picks up. Solayo sighs and answers while he preps a needle for Bethany. 92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPKAf30tIkO
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"What is it Grayson? I'm kind of busy right now playing doctor."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9t1zriiYte
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"You won't believe what I and Mikey just saw-"92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmXB9xtjqSz
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"What?"92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYTvYXUxALx
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"There is a bomb! Cloud NO joke rigged up a bomb."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0aYBo93rwE
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"Come on-"92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG4qnS8zXie
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"We're going to evacuate everyone."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ37Wzbcv2N2
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"Grayson, we can't. This place is too large for that and there are to many people for that."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv9YDRGysv3
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"But-"92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR54R0R1oIv
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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..."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzI4NX5h5ZC
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"You can't be serious-"92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA5h766zM6D
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"It's that or everyone dies."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡInBI7c0JYj
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"Okay, we'll try." And Grayson clicks off the channel.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7HM0jQZ5Lj
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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. 92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2f4lUacuyP
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"Slate, are you there?"92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNCJItwfkpa
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"Cloud's rigged a bomb."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2MX3AYmE72
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"How'd you know?!"92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9TMOF91Yjj
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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."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2PhbluvIaT
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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."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrgbpOFf631
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"Whatever, you'll handle it. I have to face off with Solayo right now, Bethany's with him!"92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUTGJp8RA5A
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"Shit. Why?"92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw57Z3fiZWK
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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. 92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡREguhsrGCb
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"What the hell are you doing here? How did you get that?!"92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAYnxqeC7Mc
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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. 92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFLsFqi3tU6
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"You're diffrent. What happened to you?"92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYvDTPsyNvC
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"Solayo, leave while you still can. There is a bomb."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWdrqubHJB8
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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. 92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4zXyaH17CO
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"Dip shit!" He yells, pulling on it. "Solayo! Solayo, come back!" 92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDS3e395ROZ
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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. 92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr3FpF2ONVr
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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."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJyP9FfQA2I
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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-"92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeRRyXV7fOw
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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. 92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcD6IBwu9Uw
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoFuaX6nInd
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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. 92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzJin57oiWv
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPyIrd3OVQt
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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. 92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGzm7FqMFuC
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYBEPxiaBdP
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"Shit, we'll have to go back and go around another way if we can." Gideon curses. 92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡezDrYzxL2b
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOBNrZKrshG
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"I'm sorry, I don't want to alarm you. But we located Cloud, he rigged a bomb." 92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXQosP3pIuu
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She hands them her pass. "No! What about you? You can't leave us, Mum!" Lyla cries.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5kw4C5uH0j
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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?"92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaqmh5dguRa
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJNtlMR8tdD
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGKe8CubbYq
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz9LGUV5MHY
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr2vFN4ejW9
"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!"92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe7ojOOvs9i
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"And maybe that's why you're not dead. Consider yourself lucky." Cloud speaks up and turns around leaving.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKmT6QWhImp
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlSNYvVcNhd
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As they jump into the backseat, they see trucks everywhere driving around madly.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUrGyTbFb1A
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4m3k4u3V57
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9CAgjWDvJe
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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXReLOsemf0
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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. 92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx3jUYnnHCH
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtw7RK2xkgP
"How we feeling everybody?" He asks as he starts up the helicopter, blades rotating.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Jx41OROyP
"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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb57VxDVjV3
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"Three years."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmk8g84DPTK
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ItEXph4ZG
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXtqDyj0aAw
"Slate! What are you doing?! There are easier ways, we have a truck-" Mikey calls out.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9pEnXpwTyZ
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlahVhjNNcY
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2xoYtwy3jM
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"Where are we goanna go?" Lyla asks. 92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcTgSbS52mq
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"Anywhere WE want." Slate responds, pushing the helicopter forward and they fly off into the sun. 92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIIEfpYehQe
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Down below, several trucks park outside far away enough from The Compound which is located inside an old mine.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQc0TZNdBxH
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz6RF5DzBXf
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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-"92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPXAQ9zQF86
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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. 92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6yVgUijboD
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Before Solayo can say a word, it's a headshot and his knocked down. "Better now, buddy?" Mikey asks.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkLA2xexwpY
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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."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZHo5oSYllK
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvHASETq5VV
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Grayson and Mikey compose themselves, standing up now that Cloud is gone. 92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn2aHEI29bw
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"Where you think he goanna go?"92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMoFujVJaDv
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9pSFUJ6gBi
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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?"92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH2fq7DSwD7
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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. 92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyk861jwWHe
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Gideon takes the map from her when she gasps for air, panicking and sitting upright, clutching her neck and arms.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyzW0yR5KLp
"You're okay, I bandaged them for you." He tells her and she relaxes, looking around confused where they are. 92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8FJqzw1nbq
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"You might want to give her one of the pills, Slate." Gideon tells him.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpn9GKAWZoN
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRJN11VU383
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"Bad news, they're gone, Gid."92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTCABs3jsvq
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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. 92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpqZ0P6cRUJ
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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. 92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwOxKOOB5Ng
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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.92Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs0sTOgC1Dz
