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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX1cCsbUjPU
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"Can we talk outside?"111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjJqfrc60lA
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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?"111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbo16m60t9S
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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...111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcfYKN8HUZK
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLZKSQYADHa
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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."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlU8gWUwlSo
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"You want to finish what Slate started?"111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP3LZ87EceP
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"Why not? Break them out. We're all in the position to help them."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiJFUTR21Lk
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnt8oM97Boa
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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. 111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8lKheLpe3i
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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."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXqTWT6hMhR
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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."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMekx0YXLl0
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"What?"111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHUyZ4ejudw
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"Crashback."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLEV2F2vlcG
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"But that won't undo the last few years of-"111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK2fOfo9wlK
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhsba5fXhOx
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfYibZGUhBK
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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."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhe1zvRU5sv
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"Like his leadership skills?"111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqA0qkzZhqA
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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."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhddn3vLk5p
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"So how do we do that? His skills are still something that would be a spot target."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl30xd1Mz0k
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"Well, it's going to leave two holes in his head. They'll heal, but-"111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwzcbXFaxY3
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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."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUMVsrHiKag
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"And what about the rest?"111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZQBnWwD8L0
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"They're fine, they can just keep doing their sorting task."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbZagXMVJZn
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoLnRGyOXuu
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkcXfL3ulRl
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo1DPnmLVyV
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbkNE9YK97k
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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. 111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpydM0d1wxo
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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. 111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTr5adLCKzK
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE5TI4yvHKb
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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. 111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡztuNQrO5ps
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY86QAgdfpZ
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwCQJgFPhXW
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2oy98IJ9cI
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡubbkAw8A53
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"I wouldn't play with that if I were you. The last person who did was severed from me."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4AijVGfWXw
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Says a voice, female. "Hello?" He calls out. No reply is heard.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzuvioAQHcY
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"Why am I here? What am I supposed to do?!" He yells out fustrated. "Who am I?"111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWJWccalaHi
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"Your heart knows who you are and you know what you are supposed to do."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqzqNONrrKM
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ8QDCWWof6
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZSfmLWA2VD
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5mxzGsandR
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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-111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf2yQtftnb7
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And then his eyes widen, he sits up straight and looks them both in the eyes. 111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz75Eed7ry1
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"Do you know who you are? Who we are?"111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUY9uOl9uql
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"Slate. You both are the leaders, Ester and Mikey. What have you both done? You're monsters."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtqgOvTZkSL
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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. 111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOHIfxvG4nm
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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. 111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW0p2VDUsn0
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We'll meet up with ya'll later outside. We'll run you a distraction."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9dlIzXKF8I
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGCWB2x1dHK
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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. 111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcQzSALEYVb
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡniT7mnIyvB
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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. 111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmGyInhfFM0
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcQlxPaofd3
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ4WoetL5kS
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxc1Rb8e60x
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We ran outside for help and the guards took her away, proably to triage."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvSUokdcHWy
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiQ7ecuxDsZ
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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."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlMtuEFApKV
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbGPcm3dzom
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0q3GTVxogG
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"Why are we doing this?" Gideon asks. 111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTSRfXAlXzO
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"You might understand once you've taken it."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNCP1aK9vM8
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Lyla and Gideon shrug, downing them. Paisley just looks at them. "Paisley."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh9rhOVqVJ7
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"I don't need them, I'm not stupid like you all are."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOVCx7gkWIv
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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."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpmdL6ygaml
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH3xhWtOEiC
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTUtbXZcFLd
He roughly grips Murphy's arms pulling him back. "Woah, look at you." Murphy says, eyeing Slate up and down. 111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmDckpPBFHl
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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."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUWJDrHLtU7
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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. 111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXlF9Vi1dNV
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So fly away, Slate."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo2AZZykmev
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"I can't, I need to find, Beth."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE6UyYBnCNL
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"Uh, Infirmary I think. She was dragged out of the sorting room."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ndmyNqBh2
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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."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXsaxTAv1bJ
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"Fucking psychotic bitches."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwRwlwOrma7
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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." 111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV3f9o40m35
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKp24ITvBV1
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡseA7G3NnzP
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFgpJPATyZb
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhAseX56HdO
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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."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFcaljA8uPH
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4ND9tAQyCk
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"Uh, did Bethany come through here?" He asks a nurse hoping she won't realize isn't security.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf9nVx9XwVs
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"Bethany?"111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvtUqBPT9HN
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"Short blonde hair, blue eyes, she... cut heself."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5yNcZgpNP6
"Uh, yep. She's in with a doctor now. Solayo's personal office I think."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmXx710RNRv
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"Are you okay? You don't look so good. The bandage on your head, is it bleeding?"111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlX2WssVUXz
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXiF0fUuVTI
"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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOsL2QqVFWV
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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. 111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdR2TWcx3IL
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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-111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjCxOha3xGT
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"Solayo! Come in!" Solayo's walkie talkie picks up. Solayo sighs and answers while he preps a needle for Bethany. 111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQCn7vvvkJ8
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"What is it Grayson? I'm kind of busy right now playing doctor."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAHaEH4Hdyv
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"You won't believe what I and Mikey just saw-"111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1oo1e2a3MI
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"What?"111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡereOqclRgV
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"There is a bomb! Cloud NO joke rigged up a bomb."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ18OJo4wHmZ
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"Come on-"111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh9may3Ap06
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"We're going to evacuate everyone."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPEZdDPWOSL
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"Grayson, we can't. This place is too large for that and there are to many people for that."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQkHkQP2Dbl
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"But-"111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkEsSK4UZrm
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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..."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE0GiJGXAqp
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"It's that or everyone dies."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8l2tBsfYK4
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"Okay, we'll try." And Grayson clicks off the channel.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSp2mnTTZC2
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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. 111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDpi2PrICCX
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"Slate, are you there?"111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡixgWtjLPM7
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"Cloud's rigged a bomb."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsXijL4hC38
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"How'd you know?!"111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGGWZ6W2Nmc
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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."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDhIdyioYPI
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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."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKzXOG4S7N9
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"Whatever, you'll handle it. I have to face off with Solayo right now, Bethany's with him!"111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfslhBlcpvl
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"Shit. Why?"111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlL7CIQK7wL
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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. 111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ3GjPN2HTh
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"What the hell are you doing here? How did you get that?!"111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8HcvBJvXmk
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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. 111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXJvd6kbBhe
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"You're diffrent. What happened to you?"111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhetrNjNPVm
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"Solayo, leave while you still can. There is a bomb."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkZsWezFKXD
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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. 111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmLkEwX0a61
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"Dip shit!" He yells, pulling on it. "Solayo! Solayo, come back!" 111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqxRhueM7Rh
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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. 111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOt1oqgySnY
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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."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm11brHHhuf
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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-"111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1HCuFfCq2l
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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. 111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3W6U5olcug
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUs98usOICA
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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. 111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUkSgkg0cGU
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq3ciaRgARL
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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. 111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvG15zngPpz
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFnj3fLUtHr
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"Shit, we'll have to go back and go around another way if we can." Gideon curses. 111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcyzjzdYKL5
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtMBNu8KmlL
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"I'm sorry, I don't want to alarm you. But we located Cloud, he rigged a bomb." 111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ266KQBFem8
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She hands them her pass. "No! What about you? You can't leave us, Mum!" Lyla cries.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbngHN2btU5
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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?"111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwtO3stt4U5
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMbb5gdMJ4C
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9IhODRSBTt
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyaNLSbqujW
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOPC3bOZlFN
"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!"111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc1qcf3hsgi
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"And maybe that's why you're not dead. Consider yourself lucky." Cloud speaks up and turns around leaving.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ijkmiMvwP
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD1Ya4NGr66
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As they jump into the backseat, they see trucks everywhere driving around madly.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTbIqZ5Wy8c
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2vynXzg0vc
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWufNuo7JeF
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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Qk4ZSMdoF
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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. 111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡya1GMDrliY
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVHg7Un1IRi
"How we feeling everybody?" He asks as he starts up the helicopter, blades rotating.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWSFOqVd5xx
"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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCTdhqaTw7T
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"Three years."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhMAN1z0EJJ
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU7zcCvwY6s
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBNvcH4gw8d
"Slate! What are you doing?! There are easier ways, we have a truck-" Mikey calls out.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ29e16MD4QL
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh3AnvviIs0
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoRnDBYuajZ
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"Where are we goanna go?" Lyla asks. 111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡivS84mEn7w
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"Anywhere WE want." Slate responds, pushing the helicopter forward and they fly off into the sun. 111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUbXFDMoYQg
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Down below, several trucks park outside far away enough from The Compound which is located inside an old mine.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2d1XYo8GVc
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsKg4EXDl9e
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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-"111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGXEFpQAyaq
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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. 111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaVpsWdmQrv
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Before Solayo can say a word, it's a headshot and his knocked down. "Better now, buddy?" Mikey asks.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF1JVKGVgXo
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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."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKWHIVHufeo
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ84niQHDJbl
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Grayson and Mikey compose themselves, standing up now that Cloud is gone. 111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsvDKFcNrb5
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"Where you think he goanna go?"111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy3UVBfCk3H
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSTdBVAnlda
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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?"111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpLT659mrSo
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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. 111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvmL7fN1hB0
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Gideon takes the map from her when she gasps for air, panicking and sitting upright, clutching her neck and arms.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz2YmafkUB0
"You're okay, I bandaged them for you." He tells her and she relaxes, looking around confused where they are. 111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwWT5JCw0SY
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"You might want to give her one of the pills, Slate." Gideon tells him.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqarP90Qe0w
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrXWZWF5HLg
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"Bad news, they're gone, Gid."111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvrhh6avO4c
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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. 111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF4Tn1S4HOa
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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. 111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWWK2nrLjzz
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXqUJGmUFJD
