Slate, Lyla, Gideon, Paisley and Bethany at each of their own respective tables are packing tinned food into crates, aprons and hair nets donned. 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7QRAcrCCnm
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWqRA1cWb2T
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"Can we talk outside?"118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA9A1L8oQT5
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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?"118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3luVWkV61G
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And she leaves, no one answering her. 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt1KvASb7O8
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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...118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrj39EFJvXy
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUvymZks5S2
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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."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKqFX26vuhd
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"You want to finish what Slate started?"118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzS24cY3rpP
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"Why not? Break them out. We're all in the position to help them."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKBMY0LrTkz
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡATEiOkQjYR
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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. 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWJg1wLRYfr
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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."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNf6evzh5o5
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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."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGUBFGrkIox
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"What?"118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRnZQYlPekR
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"Crashback."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ50jQanUoSv
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"But that won't undo the last few years of-"118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡstZFYklHoI
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSzMhaB3rPG
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7uciDaK6Jb
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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."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8vTxSlGuVz
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"Like his leadership skills?"118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOLTl4tGT4F
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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."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7bgPLi3UGE
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"So how do we do that? His skills are still something that would be a spot target."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVQPcQ6Olra
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"Well, it's going to leave two holes in his head. They'll heal, but-"118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKSvGdEg8Nv
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"Shit."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2jJ5BLnAKv
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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."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Xx9XjIzf5
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"And what about the rest?"118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjByPwbrUHN
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"They're fine, they can just keep doing their sorting task."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ4dIpWFFc4
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡor4QF2mXNS
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡihT4zn1E9U
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlf2laH1wPm
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY9vH4wEwHd
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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. 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0GMT0J6cot
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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. 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3apfjLJN3H
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3PWoQitfNY
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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. 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM3BrL7cI16
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Pz2nAMCSF
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdn1Qxrbsw5
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡITPEaWx1HT
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ55Jda71W06
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"I wouldn't play with that if I were you. The last person who did was severed from me."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkFEF9QIKy5
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Says a voice, female. "Hello?" He calls out. No reply is heard.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwUau5bpzC9
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"Why am I here? What am I supposed to do?!" He yells out fustrated. "Who am I?"118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF5ynF0rHwo
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"Your heart knows who you are and you know what you are supposed to do."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9khmNRlbTo
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpXRXmJXaYf
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO2aoOgAfIY
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtvwHqA6Pra
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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-118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHUd8ekVnjR
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And then his eyes widen, he sits up straight and looks them both in the eyes. 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7QizEvWZcR
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"Do you know who you are? Who we are?"118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsTz3rQJEBo
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"Slate. You both are the leaders, Ester and Mikey. What have you both done? You're monsters."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3qKWE7AnZu
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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. 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc7Mg74nL2m
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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. 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYcEZ9H4GNh
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We'll meet up with ya'll later outside. We'll run you a distraction."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHx5bFK4JEL
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNXKz0Cut4K
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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. 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ35TTsdkIBt
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡME02vHBeL3
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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. 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKOREkRzJGl
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4v2OwPnz7B
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR7kbAZg6fa
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX8O0Ra7ixG
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We ran outside for help and the guards took her away, proably to triage."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTCKoI7PhTM
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVtlBe7Hrar
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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."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0hREe0n8da
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLcTCmXTbqW
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkudMo2iwtc
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"Why are we doing this?" Gideon asks. 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTnvSDDfPar
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"You might understand once you've taken it."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtX3Vg7ex2V
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Lyla and Gideon shrug, downing them. Paisley just looks at them. "Paisley."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpYzd0amXyR
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"I don't need them, I'm not stupid like you all are."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0WfgMKILNG
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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."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH4pMbHgRkJ
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeuM1LpXmV9
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY443munTlH
He roughly grips Murphy's arms pulling him back. "Woah, look at you." Murphy says, eyeing Slate up and down. 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡul1vBcBMvK
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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."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡImDL5MirMD
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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. 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnCrQyW4ce4
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So fly away, Slate."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡekY7MioaLI
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"I can't, I need to find, Beth."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgr3jXhQqIG
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"Uh, Infirmary I think. She was dragged out of the sorting room."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBUfpgIM6dk
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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."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFl21yqg62B
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"Fucking psychotic bitches."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu95UFNY9bG
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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." 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZBDnBeJ27J
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6SDtrw7SfZ
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtL5sF5vFLu
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡofNfVeiq1V
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE1SWMHAwYO
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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."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyzbkw6aAjN
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7bWYhYAvLq
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"Uh, did Bethany come through here?" He asks a nurse hoping she won't realize isn't security.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ00ZnSXkJjm
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"Bethany?"118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAOJ6650edE
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"Short blonde hair, blue eyes, she... cut heself."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTQmtziZfv9
"Uh, yep. She's in with a doctor now. Solayo's personal office I think."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1uHf0skAp7
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"Are you okay? You don't look so good. The bandage on your head, is it bleeding?"118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡocgXoO7JzE
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2W1UnTYxYV
"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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE8uUGcUCUa
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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. 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8YeeZUpLft
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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-118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdmQEBRm5lQ
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"Solayo! Come in!" Solayo's walkie talkie picks up. Solayo sighs and answers while he preps a needle for Bethany. 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡawPJXiJNKm
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"What is it Grayson? I'm kind of busy right now playing doctor."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTIWscjmJwA
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"You won't believe what I and Mikey just saw-"118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVPxs5W7KFV
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"What?"118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkjVwKstv0f
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"There is a bomb! Cloud NO joke rigged up a bomb."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQsMipmiXFa
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"Come on-"118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEqFoOl3m7x
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"We're going to evacuate everyone."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK3TzGVa9po
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"Grayson, we can't. This place is too large for that and there are to many people for that."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT5eci7xFgN
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"But-"118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmjlSkpVq48
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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..."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhFYCcuDwR7
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"You can't be serious-"118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjkuDxceTfC
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"It's that or everyone dies."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5UJzcHFSde
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"Okay, we'll try." And Grayson clicks off the channel.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡti5jnhvWII
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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. 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7I6SQ2oHoD
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"Slate, are you there?"118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVAajyCZwSE
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"Cloud's rigged a bomb."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpioygRPf54
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"How'd you know?!"118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDtHPRXXDjs
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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."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv99Ka9hnYN
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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."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKHDrnpOoDp
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"Whatever, you'll handle it. I have to face off with Solayo right now, Bethany's with him!"118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiNIRbDUYu6
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"Shit. Why?"118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMIfZZXfw3A
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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. 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE0iTCEJWJU
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"What the hell are you doing here? How did you get that?!"118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdajOsXmRkH
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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. 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡobShXnOVzj
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"You're diffrent. What happened to you?"118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ80Gp96u2up
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"Solayo, leave while you still can. There is a bomb."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeq5ItdZiOE
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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. 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4WOnaBqxKu
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"Dip shit!" He yells, pulling on it. "Solayo! Solayo, come back!" 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡelPCxMkBfA
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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. 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Crtr413sX
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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."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjKy7eX3ySC
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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-"118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKLDVrE7Qkt
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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. 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf0VI1ObySs
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnwon6n9v2l
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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. 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY6MguL7YkM
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj4HJ4Uj4rO
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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. 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeNN9DZrREn
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOm4oIS8WG1
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"Shit, we'll have to go back and go around another way if we can." Gideon curses. 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGCMBQkz9Q0
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQRMdFcxt62
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"I'm sorry, I don't want to alarm you. But we located Cloud, he rigged a bomb." 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ89KRrhrboD
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She hands them her pass. "No! What about you? You can't leave us, Mum!" Lyla cries.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQTZdteSkrV
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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?"118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF8o33KbfV3
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡarTaJ1aTnF
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCnBceYMl3o
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqwAlomP86V
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWu7OMkUdVg
"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!"118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpFVQiqvP5N
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"And maybe that's why you're not dead. Consider yourself lucky." Cloud speaks up and turns around leaving.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF5oU5FqTJu
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7rDJJmVctJ
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As they jump into the backseat, they see trucks everywhere driving around madly.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlqYijlGmWS
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCVSKsveJxp
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkeQvKSG9lG
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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1rIQHM0msJ
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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. 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhGDXK2vbtn
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPFIh0LKTLj
"How we feeling everybody?" He asks as he starts up the helicopter, blades rotating.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD51d8YrMHp
"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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ41MeDgB7kx
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"Three years."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUy5OO8mcmW
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpF7QxBEpML
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxN8E1RYf6S
"Slate! What are you doing?! There are easier ways, we have a truck-" Mikey calls out.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjNbBYYVwMg
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡftNigfzONe
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX4JzcvXN46
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"Where are we goanna go?" Lyla asks. 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7L4OQd4owj
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"Anywhere WE want." Slate responds, pushing the helicopter forward and they fly off into the sun. 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYAe70K2veg
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Down below, several trucks park outside far away enough from The Compound which is located inside an old mine.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs4gWbtiCsz
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgCovCMLI4x
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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-"118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUxywegTqAb
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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. 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeAqW7zh9uu
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Before Solayo can say a word, it's a headshot and his knocked down. "Better now, buddy?" Mikey asks.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQnqYNTMCpR
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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."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8cHtL27FGu
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpXK8pRjOnk
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Grayson and Mikey compose themselves, standing up now that Cloud is gone. 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV0ABxVcBoh
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"Where you think he goanna go?"118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy5ce2wwkYA
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcURR24hl03
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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?"118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDS9mDCRsfP
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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. 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo0pGPSdLWz
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Gideon takes the map from her when she gasps for air, panicking and sitting upright, clutching her neck and arms.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡow0ztpgsyp
"You're okay, I bandaged them for you." He tells her and she relaxes, looking around confused where they are. 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN2SEwcBQsb
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"You might want to give her one of the pills, Slate." Gideon tells him.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt7vwb1ASxQ
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqTR8TJQFaq
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"Bad news, they're gone, Gid."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw0DWJa36Z2
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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. 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrdqq5frcUX
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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. 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgf027ORC5f
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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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCRQY5UTGe5
