Slate, Lyla, Gideon, Paisley and Bethany at each of their own respective tables are packing tinned food into crates, aprons and hair nets donned. 120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfdHq2eg0n7
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcckwTuKukw
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"Can we talk outside?"120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡenexdQmVgo
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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?"120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5nE4oDwB85
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And she leaves, no one answering her. 120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw14rMLfbDD
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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...120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ckFZGZxFj
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5GWHVStno9
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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."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡffVpziAbdt
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"You want to finish what Slate started?"120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm7CsQGR4it
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"Why not? Break them out. We're all in the position to help them."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy1ONegY0NZ
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjA5bCu3wvV
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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. 120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvVpKUs65aN
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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."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWOB2q85Lq0
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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."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeOipT36Zs7
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"What?"120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY80x3V7gJe
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"Crashback."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD1mUtWh24f
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"But that won't undo the last few years of-"120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRUGXklbtEp
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhqitC5b9M2
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx7d84EA0e9
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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."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7MI6UKxvyw
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"Like his leadership skills?"120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVympKj0sxR
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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."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ZZYvjNTcD
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"So how do we do that? His skills are still something that would be a spot target."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9e0fT4lDv0
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"Well, it's going to leave two holes in his head. They'll heal, but-"120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6VQmAlLCWJ
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"Shit."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡretNCSvRoR
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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."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNxJ50x0IF1
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"And what about the rest?"120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwMwlrhKnAL
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"They're fine, they can just keep doing their sorting task."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtjCsJxAJ1h
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvRZP28Dr3y
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPr26MzfKkM
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzb0It18V5p
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnQShYealSO
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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. 120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjF4PWXwYll
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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. 120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqwGcXmBjRe
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOFcD2R8gtV
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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. 120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnsA2BIj2SQ
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo0d3Up2DM9
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡznGQjm9Aw9
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9dC7XSQpls
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqy76zkL9mg
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"I wouldn't play with that if I were you. The last person who did was severed from me."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWR0UZAXOrl
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Says a voice, female. "Hello?" He calls out. No reply is heard.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcAEmzGcGva
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"Why am I here? What am I supposed to do?!" He yells out fustrated. "Who am I?"120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Ui36bl5hi
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"Your heart knows who you are and you know what you are supposed to do."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAX12X1vrsJ
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq7Y9IxIbSo
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ44SChe5P8M
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeWwbR8UeLv
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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-120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpmFSTU4Tyq
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And then his eyes widen, he sits up straight and looks them both in the eyes. 120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD7j7LW3ySC
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"Do you know who you are? Who we are?"120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ33l1UH4cG9
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"Slate. You both are the leaders, Ester and Mikey. What have you both done? You're monsters."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmEENjlyFqH
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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. 120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMmJip7o1TU
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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. 120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFu3dzmoDG2
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We'll meet up with ya'll later outside. We'll run you a distraction."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeAmWUQabA2
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfbXXA7zudd
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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. 120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5LYQzB1sFf
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXzazeHS59b
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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. 120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7psej6ifDF
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNJ9ggnbcH6
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQxWAgHWSW9
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3iTi0h7kUi
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We ran outside for help and the guards took her away, proably to triage."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6RXMxVKqJF
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWevRF1GJgq
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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."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8vPt2M1Rws
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKQrcC0dJgm
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCN4c9dN44B
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"Why are we doing this?" Gideon asks. 120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz5AyXgMP4P
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"You might understand once you've taken it."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ihN2Kt6jN
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Lyla and Gideon shrug, downing them. Paisley just looks at them. "Paisley."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQfREhTmPcG
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"I don't need them, I'm not stupid like you all are."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHfTFHilIrS
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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."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtogpZ1xsz2
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhY56XpAguz
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk1wmwKiooe
He roughly grips Murphy's arms pulling him back. "Woah, look at you." Murphy says, eyeing Slate up and down. 120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuG91RP1NbF
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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."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2QPqnXxlQp
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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. 120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLaKeJu9F9N
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So fly away, Slate."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGJ03yks4uk
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"I can't, I need to find, Beth."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdQxmdFiWbg
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"Uh, Infirmary I think. She was dragged out of the sorting room."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA87ow0rShp
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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."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpfx319Nnpt
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"Fucking psychotic bitches."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOG020MLfib
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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." 120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7guOvUhcpD
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKXnKfrYkDM
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIPXmqVjNgT
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPv9aWgI3Cz
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlq0wuLjvy8
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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."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnMe4mhbVys
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2BXNODQNkw
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"Uh, did Bethany come through here?" He asks a nurse hoping she won't realize isn't security.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUcBaMaQLro
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"Bethany?"120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8BQ3lhJhWx
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"Short blonde hair, blue eyes, she... cut heself."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKiFjKjuLoL
"Uh, yep. She's in with a doctor now. Solayo's personal office I think."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpxqphViac0
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"Shit."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfTuC9LlyFx
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"Are you okay? You don't look so good. The bandage on your head, is it bleeding?"120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQvDOR1bmlw
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMJ44O6k1m5
"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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBuKf1t8t3X
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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. 120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrtT8ryK3fM
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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-120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI7xq64MrBH
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"Solayo! Come in!" Solayo's walkie talkie picks up. Solayo sighs and answers while he preps a needle for Bethany. 120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0MV3K5eCJQ
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"What is it Grayson? I'm kind of busy right now playing doctor."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQNrd7cRKRp
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"You won't believe what I and Mikey just saw-"120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtwgPpmdqo5
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"What?"120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKUfvovOBDD
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"There is a bomb! Cloud NO joke rigged up a bomb."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcZU1mFPaEd
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"Come on-"120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Jx0ZwNK3e
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"We're going to evacuate everyone."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDCJSsQ5vw0
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"Grayson, we can't. This place is too large for that and there are to many people for that."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL87Hqp6lsx
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"But-"120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvW7xUeLx5Z
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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..."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6bWU8FgNAg
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"You can't be serious-"120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw4IfaN0Rtu
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"It's that or everyone dies."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJCl9nrgYFk
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"Okay, we'll try." And Grayson clicks off the channel.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy06km3PJtg
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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. 120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLjJ8I9TDA2
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"Slate, are you there?"120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡabX1URIR5X
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"Cloud's rigged a bomb."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxCrMqTFXD5
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"How'd you know?!"120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGDjia0Lr1S
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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."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcBL0zM9WjT
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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."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjJQVZOu9iE
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"Whatever, you'll handle it. I have to face off with Solayo right now, Bethany's with him!"120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW3sgUMmAGe
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"Shit. Why?"120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzFOwTFmSa0
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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. 120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwi4RFgQb46
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"What the hell are you doing here? How did you get that?!"120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZT9d2JEWUr
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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. 120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoBYqkWaaIR
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"You're diffrent. What happened to you?"120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLR8Uu7qA9o
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"Solayo, leave while you still can. There is a bomb."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvNZC8C1gOz
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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. 120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLN2SY7gPFA
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"Dip shit!" He yells, pulling on it. "Solayo! Solayo, come back!" 120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwbVqlsSKaD
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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. 120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQzCJjDjtOj
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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."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSZIMqFLgzS
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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-"120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwtwi82LZ8d
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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. 120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHtc1IhTplv
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpk4NRLScn1
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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. 120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG19idHVlMW
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI2aRli8FgX
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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. 120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ37slgm1tyk
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS23wDYg32X
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"Shit, we'll have to go back and go around another way if we can." Gideon curses. 120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrO85fSUdzN
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj7m4W3cqfk
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"I'm sorry, I don't want to alarm you. But we located Cloud, he rigged a bomb." 120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFy2vaNR4iW
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She hands them her pass. "No! What about you? You can't leave us, Mum!" Lyla cries.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡopWyl7gEIq
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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?"120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxUAGdff84O
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3BMsLjxauW
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMUbNPkceaC
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOH6fExscuB
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEs2YMCjaP9
"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!"120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwv32InjQ7q
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"And maybe that's why you're not dead. Consider yourself lucky." Cloud speaks up and turns around leaving.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV8bmEejR8y
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMgOLTTvHwx
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As they jump into the backseat, they see trucks everywhere driving around madly.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3yRtyFByUs
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnClbNcpr0m
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKYDBzlB93d
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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDunQdoDPny
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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. 120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz6X4An5xXQ
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcLJJtdum8f
"How we feeling everybody?" He asks as he starts up the helicopter, blades rotating.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcWlDFyANf4
"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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLfsPTRvIK4
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"Three years."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYK1UVNwNHU
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXMHsrYyDxK
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡADK7sRgRg3
"Slate! What are you doing?! There are easier ways, we have a truck-" Mikey calls out.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡREDJkNmjci
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7wBbhbsU5Z
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl5TJMAfddi
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"Where are we goanna go?" Lyla asks. 120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhI1ge2320u
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"Anywhere WE want." Slate responds, pushing the helicopter forward and they fly off into the sun. 120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD6ddv4Ej2C
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Down below, several trucks park outside far away enough from The Compound which is located inside an old mine.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJljhEOmHNZ
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ukKZPylc1
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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-"120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQG7UO2YawT
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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. 120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSLnTJCvkBc
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Before Solayo can say a word, it's a headshot and his knocked down. "Better now, buddy?" Mikey asks.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH1LLetCMat
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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."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLNH2MBlxvn
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh55yG7ypOG
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Grayson and Mikey compose themselves, standing up now that Cloud is gone. 120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ09TeMDH9qX
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"Where you think he goanna go?"120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy8048SGz7T
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx9K7GeIz1j
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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?"120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2dUhUEHBgd
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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. 120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg2z22uO2VT
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Gideon takes the map from her when she gasps for air, panicking and sitting upright, clutching her neck and arms.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrO7DK5qQEB
"You're okay, I bandaged them for you." He tells her and she relaxes, looking around confused where they are. 120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdzXgv8b6r5
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"You might want to give her one of the pills, Slate." Gideon tells him.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNnhyO7f2el
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡASWZzSERMa
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"Bad news, they're gone, Gid."120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx8IYoDtg1a
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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. 120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJqK2nqwLDv
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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. 120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvZukZ3CdXf
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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.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd5XagdK5cU
