Slate, Lyla, Gideon, Paisley and Bethany at each of their own respective tables are packing tinned food into crates, aprons and hair nets donned. 86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBa2x6fTKBs
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9L5lNiGmfy
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"Can we talk outside?"86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQQqw9fsqR1
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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?"86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtBlxSlmWty
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And she leaves, no one answering her. 86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuFeeXMQCTu
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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...86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS7fvaqfLAz
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxQ3q9vE9rZ
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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."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlHZJf74uVL
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"You want to finish what Slate started?"86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXtQJ2q3uYh
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"Why not? Break them out. We're all in the position to help them."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIDGC4ArMjM
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9t8JUs9Wjc
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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. 86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDTKmeul7S7
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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."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxYb88DVdI2
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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."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwh6DrynH0l
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"What?"86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKfvhLU1NLT
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"Crashback."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnifI0ZUtEc
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"But that won't undo the last few years of-"86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtyKWIpIU2U
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtUessWa5On
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr2LiTI38IN
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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."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkAjhxIoavN
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"Like his leadership skills?"86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsXJG4UBwNY
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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."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIFFOdgVexD
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"So how do we do that? His skills are still something that would be a spot target."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSMGglaN4pv
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"Well, it's going to leave two holes in his head. They'll heal, but-"86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgzm5zZ7cCE
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"Shit."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU4RPV1QUil
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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."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGNZLhNztsL
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"And what about the rest?"86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEPbOR8jSmm
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"They're fine, they can just keep doing their sorting task."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvxgUShW4hS
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ66efbbAqd9
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsTwDdaDa56
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6OVYbnbF4W
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgvieGvec2a
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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. 86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpJLGLZFVyN
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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. 86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF5kFbIq07A
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaioUekxcSU
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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. 86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiGddEQXRRD
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTVsxJdWWjs
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmAM2pFosFJ
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEphTlAfoz2
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqRTockOj86
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"I wouldn't play with that if I were you. The last person who did was severed from me."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs4ob3tHJie
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Says a voice, female. "Hello?" He calls out. No reply is heard.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbNwYC9zZ8B
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"Why am I here? What am I supposed to do?!" He yells out fustrated. "Who am I?"86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCaXnujzzAL
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"Your heart knows who you are and you know what you are supposed to do."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVKq7wnTrEg
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3mtkkLmVZ4
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Pz4MIsSew
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2YQYeVjFu5
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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-86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlnSM4cuOv4
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And then his eyes widen, he sits up straight and looks them both in the eyes. 86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtIGU7zzF1G
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"Do you know who you are? Who we are?"86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoVHzmsrWRC
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"Slate. You both are the leaders, Ester and Mikey. What have you both done? You're monsters."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKDJljxMdOT
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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. 86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ88bwqxNBCB
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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. 86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeF2ruA5ZiT
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We'll meet up with ya'll later outside. We'll run you a distraction."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡejaojjRLR0
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgojoZ91ecH
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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. 86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡklqUbVLv77
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxFpcx6u42X
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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. 86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUSdyxaLgI5
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu31TT45OBg
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ01SVLNJHM
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI5G8SNa7lz
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We ran outside for help and the guards took her away, proably to triage."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM711DtGUj5
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡERe1Gq4Jow
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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."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR9c7mJiUcV
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTUCRVIjKl8
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ09OUXduxIx
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"Why are we doing this?" Gideon asks. 86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVN7WCiQLaS
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"You might understand once you've taken it."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBkEeSS57po
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Lyla and Gideon shrug, downing them. Paisley just looks at them. "Paisley."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6RgrB6RSH7
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"I don't need them, I'm not stupid like you all are."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡocyYB0C2M1
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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."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhRc3M4Rvzb
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM8aAvWEnPB
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXiTjyXZkBo
He roughly grips Murphy's arms pulling him back. "Woah, look at you." Murphy says, eyeing Slate up and down. 86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQQNx2Kfehr
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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."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ58kGpItPfk
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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. 86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIUEzr1a5dx
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So fly away, Slate."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt1uwrLv8Yo
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"I can't, I need to find, Beth."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYvHC35R4Pq
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"Uh, Infirmary I think. She was dragged out of the sorting room."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUEqTwW94zW
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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."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6k7cRV1add
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"Fucking psychotic bitches."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu8M0NNJbnP
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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." 86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtWiLckzbet
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP4XptsufVI
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr6w75gCYM5
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5P0ym54oZX
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq6PKEwiCGN
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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."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsHqkEX48xu
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPqgpGc56sV
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"Uh, did Bethany come through here?" He asks a nurse hoping she won't realize isn't security.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSD2tRrrNmI
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"Bethany?"86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMMS2T1v8Eq
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"Short blonde hair, blue eyes, she... cut heself."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKyoGt5Jq0E
"Uh, yep. She's in with a doctor now. Solayo's personal office I think."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQZIoDXWVhE
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"Shit."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd4WAflISBS
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"Are you okay? You don't look so good. The bandage on your head, is it bleeding?"86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdTu3396qed
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq8vDR2dR1y
"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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv8sPh67pdg
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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. 86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVbMgv3TNMl
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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-86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPDm5p3M8BV
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"Solayo! Come in!" Solayo's walkie talkie picks up. Solayo sighs and answers while he preps a needle for Bethany. 86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbd5sC36xHX
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"What is it Grayson? I'm kind of busy right now playing doctor."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUGkFkLdCvQ
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"You won't believe what I and Mikey just saw-"86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlBuIFzBBY7
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"What?"86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxDDE1UMNDx
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"There is a bomb! Cloud NO joke rigged up a bomb."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsJsY8wnFwJ
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"Come on-"86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa2JXoGpdLa
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"We're going to evacuate everyone."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnL0RuNM7a6
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"Grayson, we can't. This place is too large for that and there are to many people for that."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0VTMXkjT52
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"But-"86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX4qmkgfhQf
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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..."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡthBXiQfVfc
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"You can't be serious-"86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtjlnZuH5wK
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"It's that or everyone dies."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXH1ANmLbRM
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"Okay, we'll try." And Grayson clicks off the channel.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzTifC8gcP3
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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. 86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5JBTctBFfN
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"Slate, are you there?"86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrPdsMH235v
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"Cloud's rigged a bomb."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPZXh0LiMBo
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"How'd you know?!"86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdk1Dkm1koB
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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."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZuCg0tq81G
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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."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWAzEoYPDQH
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"Whatever, you'll handle it. I have to face off with Solayo right now, Bethany's with him!"86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYHEhr8TZJJ
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"Shit. Why?"86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD604ZPoAST
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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. 86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUxuWNt4RV5
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"What the hell are you doing here? How did you get that?!"86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAv1rDcZ7Cx
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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. 86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzZOXByrgPr
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"You're diffrent. What happened to you?"86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7OA6ZyQKCu
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"Solayo, leave while you still can. There is a bomb."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN8YXIoI0Vl
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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. 86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAl9Z9chx74
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"Dip shit!" He yells, pulling on it. "Solayo! Solayo, come back!" 86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2w4SV1E3Md
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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. 86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5m2HhbkJ5v
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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."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhDBiuOyDcA
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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-"86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7xfbxj9Ufq
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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. 86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdq8mTArGkY
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjcZrXkq1RD
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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. 86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv97tGdeiVF
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmC5iOAE9HM
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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. 86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl3dkzBW9xh
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHwFGypGwXe
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"Shit, we'll have to go back and go around another way if we can." Gideon curses. 86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSd05rLIoya
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡixmHhqG0GK
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"I'm sorry, I don't want to alarm you. But we located Cloud, he rigged a bomb." 86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMSSm4MyFn5
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She hands them her pass. "No! What about you? You can't leave us, Mum!" Lyla cries.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpsY1yzDUKI
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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?"86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1zVXSM2mPI
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4rkHAxFeJX
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuzHeWTIInK
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyRf5lrC3XU
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVmCF2ofW1Z
"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!"86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPnoPSxQlqR
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"And maybe that's why you're not dead. Consider yourself lucky." Cloud speaks up and turns around leaving.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmRzEIiewUg
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlIQVbxvQIW
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As they jump into the backseat, they see trucks everywhere driving around madly.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9qKcpLCOjJ
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3SUKPZyUpN
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKpN1FctyAq
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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl7nIS9Qy2M
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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. 86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqiWRBhXHnL
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXZNlB86wsH
"How we feeling everybody?" He asks as he starts up the helicopter, blades rotating.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEWX8nG0e7j
"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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUmNkVIKNYJ
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"Three years."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKuMNRC173Q
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi0t6UhtmZ6
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAJ5WqkrfPU
"Slate! What are you doing?! There are easier ways, we have a truck-" Mikey calls out.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1a4dxXDvgq
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbTrKePIYnk
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6vIBbw2nCs
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"Where are we goanna go?" Lyla asks. 86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGuMM9BqyX0
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"Anywhere WE want." Slate responds, pushing the helicopter forward and they fly off into the sun. 86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlkcZ6N1liy
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Down below, several trucks park outside far away enough from The Compound which is located inside an old mine.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoJZT4eDmNS
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQwEtCMcBHc
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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-"86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHHXcna22hL
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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. 86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo8BVS5hVrC
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Before Solayo can say a word, it's a headshot and his knocked down. "Better now, buddy?" Mikey asks.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg6Ox8t8JyT
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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."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwR9ZwdJBac
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHxh78on4hn
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Grayson and Mikey compose themselves, standing up now that Cloud is gone. 86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsFtgpSAggk
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"Where you think he goanna go?"86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOAAlhLeSFj
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiyeDBUOyvo
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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?"86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNmcGzdvZOn
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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. 86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDYUgSI5Vtd
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Gideon takes the map from her when she gasps for air, panicking and sitting upright, clutching her neck and arms.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzQF2f9UWNc
"You're okay, I bandaged them for you." He tells her and she relaxes, looking around confused where they are. 86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡetixi8Z5tn
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"You might want to give her one of the pills, Slate." Gideon tells him.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6qTPHCakZO
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwJggW1e0KE
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"Bad news, they're gone, Gid."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGyTau2uXji
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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. 86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDHOKC27VTt
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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. 86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcZzDQ1fiHA
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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.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx7ugw1WiyV
