Slate, Lyla, Gideon, Paisley and Bethany at each of their own respective tables are packing tinned food into crates, aprons and hair nets donned. 127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVr7e9zXLFm
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7uiQDdkfxx
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"Can we talk outside?"127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ96WYbhdlU8
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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?"127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJdMyJ3y7uD
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And she leaves, no one answering her. 127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1x2vdK5ATB
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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...127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWQtHt7Fy2k
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr1UrUF9l2p
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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."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwLmtG4wUyb
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"You want to finish what Slate started?"127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO2e2ilbzJR
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"Why not? Break them out. We're all in the position to help them."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeX34uP84yr
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2aF56wy2Hb
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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. 127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEtV4IxiIxo
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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."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj8a2gCbW0i
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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."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiu7JDVHE82
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"What?"127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡebWI6p0neq
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"Crashback."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv00foEarrf
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"But that won't undo the last few years of-"127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqczXuKPXb7
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡocbtBotNkQ
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡezeP34nCNu
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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."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqV0GNbGUJ1
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"Like his leadership skills?"127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhP5XvxTAAL
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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."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHqYHvO36xz
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"So how do we do that? His skills are still something that would be a spot target."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH4sDtFDIWu
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"Well, it's going to leave two holes in his head. They'll heal, but-"127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZhww7UqYAK
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"Shit."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk7RYNdjVym
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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."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuXGfBk29oP
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"And what about the rest?"127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtZtD6SVL0G
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"They're fine, they can just keep doing their sorting task."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQZ9tYzkHJ7
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxfqoDjztpV
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhkv24fCo9D
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf4aS16wNMj
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu14SSrg6mf
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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. 127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu6oHmaYg0z
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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. 127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7tn78ZJF5q
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWM6X9mDK4b
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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. 127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡChnlowCHWI
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Q6xEAvZPy
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLpbUAmBldn
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5K19aMIe64
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡntelbiPL4R
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"I wouldn't play with that if I were you. The last person who did was severed from me."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNONunKcsIP
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Says a voice, female. "Hello?" He calls out. No reply is heard.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWUvGrue8R2
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"Why am I here? What am I supposed to do?!" He yells out fustrated. "Who am I?"127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhm28GVZUqR
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"Your heart knows who you are and you know what you are supposed to do."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrv18OKuSlv
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMacZLamFm3
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4pnlMZRmBW
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnEfdDb2GPS
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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-127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCD3zMASLq2
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And then his eyes widen, he sits up straight and looks them both in the eyes. 127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjwByWEaObK
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"Do you know who you are? Who we are?"127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpKPq6o3Uvw
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"Slate. You both are the leaders, Ester and Mikey. What have you both done? You're monsters."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1zazAJP4D3
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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. 127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQWd0HvakyY
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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. 127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAmoYFVitwB
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We'll meet up with ya'll later outside. We'll run you a distraction."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ42TuJEM8Rj
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMKga3VYLBG
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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. 127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX2I4M748VK
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCA9R2YVzXi
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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. 127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡScjmj1ZuIG
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4U2qATtQK3
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP1qxp7UWf6
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9CBZ4X43El
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We ran outside for help and the guards took her away, proably to triage."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3oUdJQTbVV
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF8M09CzYQx
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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."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv8GzO1nI1F
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8J2b4hvXPI
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCpLb0lEUKu
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"Why are we doing this?" Gideon asks. 127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRLG0cSa7XN
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"You might understand once you've taken it."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqBO9e56mhB
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Lyla and Gideon shrug, downing them. Paisley just looks at them. "Paisley."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2jUOAhlxNW
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"I don't need them, I'm not stupid like you all are."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUGqCRkej4J
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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."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqrAqbclQIk
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkS7PrTkJru
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsRHQEUGog7
He roughly grips Murphy's arms pulling him back. "Woah, look at you." Murphy says, eyeing Slate up and down. 127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4odYiVJAdI
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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."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7fktFCdJ19
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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. 127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFXJGTqkJcO
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So fly away, Slate."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFzoKx2KEvm
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"I can't, I need to find, Beth."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUuePpdY6q2
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"Uh, Infirmary I think. She was dragged out of the sorting room."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHgtK5fDLAw
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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."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiOd6xmbpGH
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"Fucking psychotic bitches."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm4Pa301mhL
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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." 127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWyPbdpI9Zs
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9tzkqWFqeL
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR5rDXxHQuG
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡesYg5FHS04
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4sYK8pBkxW
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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."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1EIhShIwRy
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZKRiB5Zik5
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"Uh, did Bethany come through here?" He asks a nurse hoping she won't realize isn't security.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOSCsWpTANR
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"Bethany?"127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPvfR8gJ8bb
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"Short blonde hair, blue eyes, she... cut heself."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh6AwRaugJC
"Uh, yep. She's in with a doctor now. Solayo's personal office I think."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmzOVgGJCwW
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"Are you okay? You don't look so good. The bandage on your head, is it bleeding?"127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgfjCtVFNhR
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvTGKkkbteE
"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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi3d1nvf35u
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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. 127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsZBCWPxRPw
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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-127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI4917GJ0N6
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"Solayo! Come in!" Solayo's walkie talkie picks up. Solayo sighs and answers while he preps a needle for Bethany. 127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7hs5LN3lnY
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"What is it Grayson? I'm kind of busy right now playing doctor."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXbEqntqkWd
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"You won't believe what I and Mikey just saw-"127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYOSAu44V6V
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"What?"127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr4rAbMEOjb
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"There is a bomb! Cloud NO joke rigged up a bomb."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW7coYbVSQm
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"Come on-"127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx3P92goeC6
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"We're going to evacuate everyone."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡov7XJOYX4H
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"Grayson, we can't. This place is too large for that and there are to many people for that."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOEwYXbvtkz
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"But-"127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbgJR9I2swc
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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..."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDbBWasiNi4
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"You can't be serious-"127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2I76TX44Bi
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"It's that or everyone dies."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtTlKrVIKcV
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"Okay, we'll try." And Grayson clicks off the channel.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS8kX5KYws7
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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. 127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVpfepmDuZE
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"Slate, are you there?"127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgssiANk0JH
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"Cloud's rigged a bomb."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVGPlQbfK3k
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"How'd you know?!"127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUKA9AOkEEO
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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."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjcCkFTyf3b
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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."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ6hAWBs47c
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"Whatever, you'll handle it. I have to face off with Solayo right now, Bethany's with him!"127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeJjP4ZgwIq
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"Shit. Why?"127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUH8pM9tSk7
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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. 127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXXM65vbWkA
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"What the hell are you doing here? How did you get that?!"127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOIi1bv8av2
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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. 127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9jsX91Ko1m
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"You're diffrent. What happened to you?"127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlXpPAmTBf4
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"Solayo, leave while you still can. There is a bomb."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa6eQeYbld8
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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. 127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLu1tJcmu1D
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"Dip shit!" He yells, pulling on it. "Solayo! Solayo, come back!" 127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtey1o4nkmI
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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. 127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuNKfZxaQOj
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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."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrfNrWOvV8o
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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-"127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjGwzBvxLaD
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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. 127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3i9ss4upDc
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJSkSafSB6J
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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. 127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSsi342jpPx
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLIReolKDR3
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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. 127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaEfKMM4reV
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtYF0qRtVtD
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"Shit, we'll have to go back and go around another way if we can." Gideon curses. 127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvkiLoxzAoa
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBBoEDE3LPa
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"I'm sorry, I don't want to alarm you. But we located Cloud, he rigged a bomb." 127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ZXhbsUVRC
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She hands them her pass. "No! What about you? You can't leave us, Mum!" Lyla cries.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDzDl7qvmcD
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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?"127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzVPvRhFTQG
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ93BFnOH7ai
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN5rXu6VEsc
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtgAl31YAoJ
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdsFgZlQwaA
"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!"127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKaDfIPnTCi
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"And maybe that's why you're not dead. Consider yourself lucky." Cloud speaks up and turns around leaving.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1cxhL09Gn5
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAqhoWkukqu
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As they jump into the backseat, they see trucks everywhere driving around madly.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡThxV4R07tf
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7DeOKFq7qA
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPCvebpss3m
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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyRsOkywys7
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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. 127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqGlkMhnRDG
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1bqF6i4v54
"How we feeling everybody?" He asks as he starts up the helicopter, blades rotating.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0XS5Z5kH09
"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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYelpEABr8m
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"Three years."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUtndEUPWWB
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxQP7B2HoJh
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg0Mft8lbOO
"Slate! What are you doing?! There are easier ways, we have a truck-" Mikey calls out.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6bMxhecyO9
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhTok6koCej
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡptop9Os7MP
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"Where are we goanna go?" Lyla asks. 127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmXGpot7uXh
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"Anywhere WE want." Slate responds, pushing the helicopter forward and they fly off into the sun. 127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU4qSzynTAn
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Down below, several trucks park outside far away enough from The Compound which is located inside an old mine.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRjieN4WD0U
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKFKmmLu7CH
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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-"127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBcS5AvS1qK
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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. 127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlWzeUawAGR
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Before Solayo can say a word, it's a headshot and his knocked down. "Better now, buddy?" Mikey asks.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2vNWQWraut
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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."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr9AN0Bk7Qj
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOsNxTvkGVI
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Grayson and Mikey compose themselves, standing up now that Cloud is gone. 127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzJCsyeFhVG
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"Where you think he goanna go?"127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTopD4byTsQ
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrkgC2N5NzY
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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?"127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtAXiXjfEwO
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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. 127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA18lBlolAr
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Gideon takes the map from her when she gasps for air, panicking and sitting upright, clutching her neck and arms.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyq9pQQqyo7
"You're okay, I bandaged them for you." He tells her and she relaxes, looking around confused where they are. 127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi93mgIf4DD
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"You might want to give her one of the pills, Slate." Gideon tells him.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHUVUB6BItF
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh93OhpzKNO
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"Bad news, they're gone, Gid."127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCLTKKG98ZT
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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. 127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbWtztdgwOD
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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. 127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6wCNlMO6hT
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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.127Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZuJurxkANd
