Slate, Lyla, Gideon, Paisley and Bethany at each of their own respective tables are packing tinned food into crates, aprons and hair nets donned. 99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsQ9ub3k72R
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS9EaSOGJYx
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"Can we talk outside?"99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh9U278gtcl
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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?"99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1MtBFIh9cL
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And she leaves, no one answering her. 99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUsopQo4nVw
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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...99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrvctRhApyP
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9dXIcCV17o
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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."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlKouLSnNUK
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"You want to finish what Slate started?"99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAifMHrEln9
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"Why not? Break them out. We're all in the position to help them."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKYtABvGuMB
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsyuXxXwUVs
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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. 99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5UalWJtDnv
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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."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ57eKm5CKPp
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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."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwT7BL2NGyy
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"What?"99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRYVn7FI5gz
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"Crashback."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6TnSA7FNd5
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"But that won't undo the last few years of-"99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxUma2zUG2B
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGWbpjq3HKT
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfCDJMX3H7P
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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."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIzwTtTbEA0
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"Like his leadership skills?"99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEwZT3zD5xn
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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."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGGEHd7os82
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"So how do we do that? His skills are still something that would be a spot target."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Q7XpUHzBD
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"Well, it's going to leave two holes in his head. They'll heal, but-"99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM75ljieMPx
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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."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc4g6fipj6w
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"And what about the rest?"99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZp2UQ8wPJW
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"They're fine, they can just keep doing their sorting task."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxzYymnXKrX
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvf4yzc3yAW
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡivwqDgnAff
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKUQiwvrr2K
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡty1VFY486A
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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. 99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlVgvV8wSzk
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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. 99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡre3mrsrFbN
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFwEwA1AmoK
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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. 99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJO9wn609ul
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1X98umQFWJ
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH5XBnnJBVc
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsBRuoY2LrX
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP5SJFxqH2K
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"I wouldn't play with that if I were you. The last person who did was severed from me."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG6TdVYDGbj
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Says a voice, female. "Hello?" He calls out. No reply is heard.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3IP0ifSYeS
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"Why am I here? What am I supposed to do?!" He yells out fustrated. "Who am I?"99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO48ZFUnucu
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"Your heart knows who you are and you know what you are supposed to do."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCbImxBc32e
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR20Ic5s1cA
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOjKHCwiQG7
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSh7iPqE3p6
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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-99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXNTejklMH6
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And then his eyes widen, he sits up straight and looks them both in the eyes. 99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgRFK9Z5e9N
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"Do you know who you are? Who we are?"99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmSWDEgpIbM
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"Slate. You both are the leaders, Ester and Mikey. What have you both done? You're monsters."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNsUyU5YGBD
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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. 99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP5VTDyYgyc
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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. 99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXgMhA1GEP7
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We'll meet up with ya'll later outside. We'll run you a distraction."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ59jIfYxqKI
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡymBpjbvsBS
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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. 99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiTklFKJ0TY
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr0EohcCHsL
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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. 99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6UQjQkVpH7
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcJtM4U0JkZ
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsG3xpxZ5vX
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWm48GisAd8
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We ran outside for help and the guards took her away, proably to triage."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgHO1XwWf0m
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWwq1Ao6g74
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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."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTRzf76TxsA
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAu1WVO8TBN
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsZR7MCJUMD
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"Why are we doing this?" Gideon asks. 99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7MBnYB8VgQ
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"You might understand once you've taken it."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaPPWqMiZnm
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Lyla and Gideon shrug, downing them. Paisley just looks at them. "Paisley."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlvmqZUfBQn
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"I don't need them, I'm not stupid like you all are."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7moiIPg1Lx
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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."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDFrGaHgAsB
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlbfu9QmDGa
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjRRcZR541U
He roughly grips Murphy's arms pulling him back. "Woah, look at you." Murphy says, eyeing Slate up and down. 99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlUAqvOQqff
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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."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNxIibt0LsE
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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. 99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVenTXVrGYm
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So fly away, Slate."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS970umMgJ7
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"I can't, I need to find, Beth."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh2iEoxhsdB
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"Uh, Infirmary I think. She was dragged out of the sorting room."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJOzJ7g1g6p
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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."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUcNFuNhxMr
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"Fucking psychotic bitches."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQF9Dj9VYGV
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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." 99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfrpRRCvyPy
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxzQ80FBLVn
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnRrPxgjdVy
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw6jxd4hOg1
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡARERR0eL14
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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."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmfcRuOdbrg
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA4UlvwAbSI
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"Uh, did Bethany come through here?" He asks a nurse hoping she won't realize isn't security.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3P3wnVNXZo
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"Bethany?"99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF8uqcOycP0
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"Short blonde hair, blue eyes, she... cut heself."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBeoEtw5LXs
"Uh, yep. She's in with a doctor now. Solayo's personal office I think."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqDofPcZhXx
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"Shit."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Wov2GwWeM
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"Are you okay? You don't look so good. The bandage on your head, is it bleeding?"99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ98ajrdzgSQ
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWmMNEK30dm
"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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX0esYbU4Mc
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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. 99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYDfBO1NZkW
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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-99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMnh62tRQcn
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"Solayo! Come in!" Solayo's walkie talkie picks up. Solayo sighs and answers while he preps a needle for Bethany. 99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHAniPSKVv9
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"What is it Grayson? I'm kind of busy right now playing doctor."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2uBDN3UluQ
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"You won't believe what I and Mikey just saw-"99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBigI6Vpv5l
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"What?"99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeaA54n3EvW
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"There is a bomb! Cloud NO joke rigged up a bomb."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsraKgn1Tu3
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"Come on-"99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqf4T2D7472
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"We're going to evacuate everyone."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrSvrJmLixu
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"Grayson, we can't. This place is too large for that and there are to many people for that."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt8pABzqV9r
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"But-"99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb3BTcSn0oI
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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..."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDQBjWSruYu
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"You can't be serious-"99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9k2ZlHjfYd
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"It's that or everyone dies."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGPrjdYDkt8
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"Okay, we'll try." And Grayson clicks off the channel.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwB6jiDuaqZ
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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. 99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW7xapV389S
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"Slate, are you there?"99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5CpNxQ0GaE
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"Cloud's rigged a bomb."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRGSwvyyHfX
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"How'd you know?!"99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMWIfyofKVN
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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."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7gauvFGuso
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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."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgwdA8P72r8
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"Whatever, you'll handle it. I have to face off with Solayo right now, Bethany's with him!"99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfCKKpE9uiA
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"Shit. Why?"99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz17QWQyWQi
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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. 99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRMDMXCv6gv
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"What the hell are you doing here? How did you get that?!"99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA7uad0Dqdo
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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. 99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡydiwtZ8v9N
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"You're diffrent. What happened to you?"99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFufDv8FbS1
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"Solayo, leave while you still can. There is a bomb."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs5Lk12dDRm
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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. 99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq26lB160sy
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"Dip shit!" He yells, pulling on it. "Solayo! Solayo, come back!" 99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBBfOpVd24l
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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. 99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZamAbA4Woj
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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."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwtcsvJUsRT
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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-"99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd0pthW65am
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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. 99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9BbMzMA841
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9urZNBFK2D
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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. 99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCrxJ9rlLe8
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkNAP0XUUcV
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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. 99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Vwm9qFbFg
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyM83uNDVsy
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"Shit, we'll have to go back and go around another way if we can." Gideon curses. 99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXdi8A0cYK2
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ75Pdp3JXOK
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"I'm sorry, I don't want to alarm you. But we located Cloud, he rigged a bomb." 99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk6yxAeKDwt
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She hands them her pass. "No! What about you? You can't leave us, Mum!" Lyla cries.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsDBcsqdqJW
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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?"99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHtc52YKD58
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYaKI4QphaJ
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwgj0iUy2Wp
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGZMnUaF6Rm
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRht9YEdyFQ
"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!"99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡboagM7Q1ck
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"And maybe that's why you're not dead. Consider yourself lucky." Cloud speaks up and turns around leaving.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXUyCWBKwws
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlHtzcexSQV
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As they jump into the backseat, they see trucks everywhere driving around madly.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq4YnxJ9YSX
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ30I08h80e
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLqTxSslf9J
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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK7Pxu8DOpm
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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. 99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP96uGiqHpQ
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6SosrAAgFN
"How we feeling everybody?" He asks as he starts up the helicopter, blades rotating.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlqLYdqHyx5
"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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvylekjNHCQ
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"Three years."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDsGWV4Rwtd
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlDf1BAItPU
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSCsGCChoNR
"Slate! What are you doing?! There are easier ways, we have a truck-" Mikey calls out.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZwTe2UcFYj
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzxz2nOw7Ak
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ30ECgnYAdt
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"Where are we goanna go?" Lyla asks. 99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcIKYhcPxzK
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"Anywhere WE want." Slate responds, pushing the helicopter forward and they fly off into the sun. 99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIPkNpJCJwB
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Down below, several trucks park outside far away enough from The Compound which is located inside an old mine.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡncRLEDvsVZ
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKZSvEkAU6n
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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-"99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdxWageXXvS
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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. 99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Y9topX9MX
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Before Solayo can say a word, it's a headshot and his knocked down. "Better now, buddy?" Mikey asks.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOi3sl6ep18
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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."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8x5cOEYUJs
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIfJJBGsaqt
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Grayson and Mikey compose themselves, standing up now that Cloud is gone. 99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6OU5cGCwZ5
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"Where you think he goanna go?"99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEJ0WNYhdw5
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRsm5Ic1mOw
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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?"99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNnc8jwHuBC
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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. 99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMdoJhsjbWh
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Gideon takes the map from her when she gasps for air, panicking and sitting upright, clutching her neck and arms.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIVIkAH1Er0
"You're okay, I bandaged them for you." He tells her and she relaxes, looking around confused where they are. 99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡywOv3GQ9OR
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"You might want to give her one of the pills, Slate." Gideon tells him.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsOxsE50sDv
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBSILtytjpM
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"Bad news, they're gone, Gid."99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZwZdeMuOKN
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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. 99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRbzVlp3UVk
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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. 99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyjWVg4h5z8
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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.99Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbhfRb6cTDI
