Slate, Lyla, Gideon, Paisley and Bethany at each of their own respective tables are packing tinned food into crates, aprons and hair nets donned. 91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5tyxI9sRTP
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡev1l9wh1Fv
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"Can we talk outside?"91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLj3PNSe0Op
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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?"91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡba1joxVbZP
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And she leaves, no one answering her. 91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa1vX75Y7fD
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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...91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbBIhX9VvKe
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQpG0LKDJoE
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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."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7zMhGlD8Ef
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"You want to finish what Slate started?"91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0qOuaZUPFu
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"Why not? Break them out. We're all in the position to help them."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9IYzElsrJW
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT9zau4zGtM
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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. 91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZB4uOv3HO9
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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."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ38QMD49Q3v
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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."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ88mEMhZAde
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"What?"91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG3LUjMldaX
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"Crashback."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrrFUHf4PVg
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"But that won't undo the last few years of-"91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPrWL59VsWa
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxbATGkCgZT
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrKjO62XArA
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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."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvQdsbdKutG
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"Like his leadership skills?"91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx8H0v0R4HM
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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."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiTfZVn9isQ
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"So how do we do that? His skills are still something that would be a spot target."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4rsSRCXmoY
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"Well, it's going to leave two holes in his head. They'll heal, but-"91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm63sme5plH
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"Shit."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWNv5YVPG3n
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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."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPGCDmlpkW7
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"And what about the rest?"91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuYg3liylNW
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"They're fine, they can just keep doing their sorting task."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4RV0ddMIU1
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa90ABbGfno
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDkCI11azUj
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgsC4vzMN9x
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfqAc4nqlr6
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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. 91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNh4gk1Haoc
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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. 91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmwmEyYhpdq
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKC6SSb3jGM
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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. 91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHxdE8GuM0Q
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3TxHMvr3Vs
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIEh2plH9KS
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPcYuW3lIFi
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnjAgZCTzLE
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"I wouldn't play with that if I were you. The last person who did was severed from me."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvjnPDvbymU
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Says a voice, female. "Hello?" He calls out. No reply is heard.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwKQyaY4mV7
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"Why am I here? What am I supposed to do?!" He yells out fustrated. "Who am I?"91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm0TY5K5I9u
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"Your heart knows who you are and you know what you are supposed to do."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8jB0zD2Mm6
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡepl8uyjZh5
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgo8mlBsJWo
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ44uVgkf7JJ
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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-91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3L8OwH74Pk
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And then his eyes widen, he sits up straight and looks them both in the eyes. 91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTFdvKJguPu
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"Do you know who you are? Who we are?"91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7tc6Ly0yk4
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"Slate. You both are the leaders, Ester and Mikey. What have you both done? You're monsters."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0NOrnzlFbc
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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. 91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRJ5uO7Mqek
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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. 91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKUxFfLZtzn
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We'll meet up with ya'll later outside. We'll run you a distraction."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxUlgNochig
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyDZ2TkMkSr
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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. 91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXZBupacimc
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbVkTvx72C5
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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. 91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRLEqcfUl2d
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWHIRyj7J74
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4x7DHJCs9q
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQvk20XdKnr
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We ran outside for help and the guards took her away, proably to triage."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPoRlh0W1UG
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9RkJwFWK7d
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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."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP1u8JPkXcx
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcJeZd2GyC9
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbZdV6K972L
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"Why are we doing this?" Gideon asks. 91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCKL37QOkw3
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"You might understand once you've taken it."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBzZPCoruBi
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Lyla and Gideon shrug, downing them. Paisley just looks at them. "Paisley."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0WpCMGUiRY
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"I don't need them, I'm not stupid like you all are."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn1wR6jOiBV
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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."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdfSYaex8xP
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCNCRgyCP6p
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXxymfa3zxO
He roughly grips Murphy's arms pulling him back. "Woah, look at you." Murphy says, eyeing Slate up and down. 91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs1xayVXGAR
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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."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ22MLnOzKQW
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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. 91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2KYHVdOAmM
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So fly away, Slate."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6l8Kn1XDZx
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"I can't, I need to find, Beth."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBcHBUsXN2w
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"Uh, Infirmary I think. She was dragged out of the sorting room."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl9uvsd9iVk
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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."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhuoHWR5THm
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"Fucking psychotic bitches."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJRSdG4PKau
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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." 91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyh2GXfTpai
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1TBmOE5PnX
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡESCWIb1lIb
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI8gIaYkqU8
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEzQeGmuG43
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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."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz7QXNCVjIU
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQa62tmaMYU
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"Uh, did Bethany come through here?" He asks a nurse hoping she won't realize isn't security.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAApgMUkcJX
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"Bethany?"91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1f6gB0cqyX
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"Short blonde hair, blue eyes, she... cut heself."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfeIeH0W1PA
"Uh, yep. She's in with a doctor now. Solayo's personal office I think."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGEewWDUQQB
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"Shit."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtVMTdfS5u0
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"Are you okay? You don't look so good. The bandage on your head, is it bleeding?"91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvpD0WPv6Py
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡurxGM1eojq
"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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFbXEzkrO4U
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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. 91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU9sOadawJQ
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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-91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvwY36v7y12
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"Solayo! Come in!" Solayo's walkie talkie picks up. Solayo sighs and answers while he preps a needle for Bethany. 91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdb5fKbWXNr
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"What is it Grayson? I'm kind of busy right now playing doctor."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3VviXrk55z
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"You won't believe what I and Mikey just saw-"91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwOEY7Bl7In
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"What?"91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ye7k8G6y6
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"There is a bomb! Cloud NO joke rigged up a bomb."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBMDjxU7rDU
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"Come on-"91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGCddAtWmt4
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"We're going to evacuate everyone."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKCLzvvy7GH
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"Grayson, we can't. This place is too large for that and there are to many people for that."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCagFHpFQNa
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"But-"91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsYVDtoqxIH
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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..."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6p30f7QkS6
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"You can't be serious-"91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrbua0TeuNQ
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"It's that or everyone dies."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKKeDTkzQTM
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"Okay, we'll try." And Grayson clicks off the channel.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9f13KrP9bk
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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. 91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVAOkeVrZog
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"Slate, are you there?"91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTqFr5wvwvD
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"Cloud's rigged a bomb."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbL5plqNYTd
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"How'd you know?!"91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSRyZXNIHC1
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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."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz09Cg1iEpJ
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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."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIcKG70p7Y1
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"Whatever, you'll handle it. I have to face off with Solayo right now, Bethany's with him!"91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwJ3Ji5z3VI
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"Shit. Why?"91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsxkDxOsmCC
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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. 91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEoMadA7LaZ
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"What the hell are you doing here? How did you get that?!"91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzkE0QtTySx
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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. 91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmHmzAZPb7j
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"You're diffrent. What happened to you?"91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA0Q0Z4PiQe
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"Solayo, leave while you still can. There is a bomb."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡazUtRNfNXn
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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. 91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXteFTIXUUT
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"Dip shit!" He yells, pulling on it. "Solayo! Solayo, come back!" 91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqMbNK9pczM
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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. 91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoc80l7D6e7
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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."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn1zyuHxRh9
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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-"91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRrQJCsBkAo
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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. 91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ97TkPPNek2
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0V4mx18632
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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. 91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy8nu6pdysM
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBXx8j3TV9K
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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. 91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Y1FDwQy1d
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz1TcBG8wfi
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"Shit, we'll have to go back and go around another way if we can." Gideon curses. 91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKg7JK2hYOB
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1k8BZHzesO
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"I'm sorry, I don't want to alarm you. But we located Cloud, he rigged a bomb." 91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8mum6PfJIh
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She hands them her pass. "No! What about you? You can't leave us, Mum!" Lyla cries.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTx000Ktuio
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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?"91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡukvEs23NdZ
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI24wTZb1kX
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk0U4Kt7moY
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbDchVaa7zo
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4UsLLYbFEU
"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!"91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBmjk8Tlgbh
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"And maybe that's why you're not dead. Consider yourself lucky." Cloud speaks up and turns around leaving.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmSgv4Ukx4m
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAC5zr6GcI4
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As they jump into the backseat, they see trucks everywhere driving around madly.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjkaCGuOCR7
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ05BJzaXNtd
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZOTAsS1slV
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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwyi8SP5ida
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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. 91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpYjE7Jts0H
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSgnurN3hLK
"How we feeling everybody?" He asks as he starts up the helicopter, blades rotating.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLmNbCplptc
"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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpKFAYyulwr
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"Three years."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Y21VCuR03
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBcBvIPtXP7
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcMYUGVWIqX
"Slate! What are you doing?! There are easier ways, we have a truck-" Mikey calls out.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeLXmavIoiM
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ99Ie9EBmrC
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtLC9beHmy2
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"Where are we goanna go?" Lyla asks. 91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxrbmVhggtn
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"Anywhere WE want." Slate responds, pushing the helicopter forward and they fly off into the sun. 91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmD2aq7bF9F
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Down below, several trucks park outside far away enough from The Compound which is located inside an old mine.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKs50L2hrBH
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCDq7WIPfdq
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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-"91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡViNHbHQS7n
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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. 91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAXTc8upkev
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Before Solayo can say a word, it's a headshot and his knocked down. "Better now, buddy?" Mikey asks.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYAHN7SzbGj
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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."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdaPbuBEX37
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Bb5VIskPv
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Grayson and Mikey compose themselves, standing up now that Cloud is gone. 91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYM2x2jWPLV
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"Where you think he goanna go?"91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdqkcjZXGlq
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCCDwYP8xM0
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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?"91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3U8Vi5GEUI
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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. 91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLjDgQaRpPY
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Gideon takes the map from her when she gasps for air, panicking and sitting upright, clutching her neck and arms.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnP1mg7gfOi
"You're okay, I bandaged them for you." He tells her and she relaxes, looking around confused where they are. 91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzSxebpIqO7
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"You might want to give her one of the pills, Slate." Gideon tells him.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIs0BtVvShv
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ntorQiSkq
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"Bad news, they're gone, Gid."91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ph0KmtBlb
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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. 91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgybPWkTxyN
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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. 91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLZKloYoaJj
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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.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbuvzPKDRMv
