Slate, Lyla, Gideon, Paisley and Bethany at each of their own respective tables are packing tinned food into crates, aprons and hair nets donned. 96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXRyukO4fWF
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdokUG0o8Qi
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"Can we talk outside?"96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMPSllvwOp7
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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?"96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHtODVdegtO
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And she leaves, no one answering her. 96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4bRjBUy7Z1
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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...96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4BcronkRAA
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkDlJzeea49
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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."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡThM4149V2U
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"You want to finish what Slate started?"96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNxBVsWqNke
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"Why not? Break them out. We're all in the position to help them."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoccXqHgeIT
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPgS6ODLKhr
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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. 96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtuxUveeQJR
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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."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWsbXTn9F1c
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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."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbHLuiUqOQg
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"What?"96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNE9qtDzWmm
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"Crashback."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJHCA4XuCG7
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"But that won't undo the last few years of-"96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYjfK5wQJgR
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu8ELJHwp1c
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYQWoTWQzcP
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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."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGgaGQHDPoP
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"Like his leadership skills?"96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTc3Cco6ric
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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."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtccSlqQ398
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"So how do we do that? His skills are still something that would be a spot target."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpuhkQBbtBV
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"Well, it's going to leave two holes in his head. They'll heal, but-"96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgszfOw9Phf
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"Shit."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQDBEdCEUqc
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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."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHS2GR1qTqZ
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"And what about the rest?"96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ5EXaWexKK
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"They're fine, they can just keep doing their sorting task."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzMejnianPV
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlmFE39Ippr
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsX1BhmQhgM
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcb9yXUsuB9
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9LM515mGDx
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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. 96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRnFRKiVBZm
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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. 96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7XKxZezmlp
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN0XfmLqLPx
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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. 96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2qjLwVoGls
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO8DuVvx8AE
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnbHE0vi0GJ
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0RGsUpMVBI
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz1RPJVE22h
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"I wouldn't play with that if I were you. The last person who did was severed from me."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPBZYBy6JNN
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Says a voice, female. "Hello?" He calls out. No reply is heard.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVS0HA8QJQp
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"Why am I here? What am I supposed to do?!" He yells out fustrated. "Who am I?"96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKDjk0UMsFb
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"Your heart knows who you are and you know what you are supposed to do."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkBfogGkVKq
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyoTIMGx5VG
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBtdYZeLaBh
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB5l9sfDzeS
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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-96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsNXSCnfbhG
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And then his eyes widen, he sits up straight and looks them both in the eyes. 96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6GnktGQdPA
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"Do you know who you are? Who we are?"96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0dc1mp0fAY
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"Slate. You both are the leaders, Ester and Mikey. What have you both done? You're monsters."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc8yexqCtv2
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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. 96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ06SijjhxP4
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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. 96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRJmPGNdtYA
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We'll meet up with ya'll later outside. We'll run you a distraction."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfy9Q7VaVTo
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBklFO4Okqa
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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. 96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdYhH7g6uK9
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmbyDrGY8La
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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. 96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoOFsE8rkKd
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXUE58OS4Mj
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHG6Rh9Tl1Y
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaWssjPixeT
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We ran outside for help and the guards took her away, proably to triage."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡECzm09ljs0
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC7wIlqBwl1
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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."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbzk5kd6Jcl
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg3LUwMl4fi
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgBgIR4AOCn
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"Why are we doing this?" Gideon asks. 96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNbCdjSLqOi
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"You might understand once you've taken it."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGnyvBKre6M
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Lyla and Gideon shrug, downing them. Paisley just looks at them. "Paisley."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRteXmMTbqI
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"I don't need them, I'm not stupid like you all are."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm6KjZkbCoV
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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."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIFS630LhKW
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXaa4kqi9kn
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw6gfLDZyyw
He roughly grips Murphy's arms pulling him back. "Woah, look at you." Murphy says, eyeing Slate up and down. 96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg45q4B74gS
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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."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ceAxjnLi8
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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. 96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8fqXliIUjX
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So fly away, Slate."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrhrfJSiNwj
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"I can't, I need to find, Beth."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiC8fV0pGTz
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"Uh, Infirmary I think. She was dragged out of the sorting room."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGmLugQ9VJl
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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."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrLwwNGYP2k
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"Fucking psychotic bitches."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3VjXQu7Ujz
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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." 96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡltjmNiNG0F
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOYuHBytyJd
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD8zPiu7bnM
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRcp0nJkdE9
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbsftvy4KJU
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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."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqUhldSDmUP
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrfk2H3GwGM
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"Uh, did Bethany come through here?" He asks a nurse hoping she won't realize isn't security.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaEgOYIxQwb
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"Bethany?"96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKrTVPMq5Us
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"Short blonde hair, blue eyes, she... cut heself."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY4yw34gfEV
"Uh, yep. She's in with a doctor now. Solayo's personal office I think."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmTUJjz0ZHw
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"Shit."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLGs05BimDx
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"Are you okay? You don't look so good. The bandage on your head, is it bleeding?"96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfd0NtvVHuw
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡITjRZVS6iL
"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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzDzsqjXy3w
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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. 96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLQUmr4ZE9Z
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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-96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjaffFb96hO
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"Solayo! Come in!" Solayo's walkie talkie picks up. Solayo sighs and answers while he preps a needle for Bethany. 96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Eba0YWeEJ
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"What is it Grayson? I'm kind of busy right now playing doctor."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU6Mpw8E4t1
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"You won't believe what I and Mikey just saw-"96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqyiVjSz5AR
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"What?"96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMtph0Ib0HZ
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"There is a bomb! Cloud NO joke rigged up a bomb."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4eG7Zexocd
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"Come on-"96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtSP5xFcWBy
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"We're going to evacuate everyone."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEjbT8cCJm8
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"Grayson, we can't. This place is too large for that and there are to many people for that."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj52uLy3Ij9
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"But-"96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ257CoHNSrW
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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..."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSZyvfELD4G
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"You can't be serious-"96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4T6QdUY91D
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"It's that or everyone dies."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCQf06hXoWF
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"Okay, we'll try." And Grayson clicks off the channel.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvIwuauPeBs
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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. 96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNZOfWiZOQt
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"Slate, are you there?"96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrthcM62rce
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"Cloud's rigged a bomb."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy7f2uJXAwF
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"How'd you know?!"96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Fl8V2wekg
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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."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8MbkGKsmZN
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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."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaTqeGgb7SR
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"Whatever, you'll handle it. I have to face off with Solayo right now, Bethany's with him!"96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhBBSdDXonm
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"Shit. Why?"96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡClkRWwA492
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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. 96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYqQYEyrjIS
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"What the hell are you doing here? How did you get that?!"96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfBcXESXJTP
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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. 96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvFzEcET8Au
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"You're diffrent. What happened to you?"96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgRKR6ZnNEz
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"Solayo, leave while you still can. There is a bomb."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXUgGaVtGkA
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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. 96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKhxGrYw2BM
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"Dip shit!" He yells, pulling on it. "Solayo! Solayo, come back!" 96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIp2UP6Xxdi
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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. 96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQnzERPlK0S
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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."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0bOsPIsmNB
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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-"96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0v3cQOyOHP
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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. 96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb6n3ztCiIJ
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpgVe1QEtDu
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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. 96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡos7HeKHYEI
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCKRVKsoOQU
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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. 96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡImKLoEIW5N
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJg2wMhBl5a
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"Shit, we'll have to go back and go around another way if we can." Gideon curses. 96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdwzEbfiEaZ
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7beuWuWDdz
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"I'm sorry, I don't want to alarm you. But we located Cloud, he rigged a bomb." 96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaI9Uzvmqwu
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She hands them her pass. "No! What about you? You can't leave us, Mum!" Lyla cries.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQWP8W7hmxE
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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?"96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjUpFQmS5nm
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqt6Nz0G3If
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7sPyeLLsYo
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW1kjSe85pq
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWiqVjcfiml
"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!"96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTjfoCcyNFl
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"And maybe that's why you're not dead. Consider yourself lucky." Cloud speaks up and turns around leaving.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPRCEDaygaS
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgwMZEWFFWY
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As they jump into the backseat, they see trucks everywhere driving around madly.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAmBe2ff0da
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5i1Vgp4Uwk
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy61STrVaIF
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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvc8Zx0JOip
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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. 96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTYtV7JBroA
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtHwQ2zJBXP
"How we feeling everybody?" He asks as he starts up the helicopter, blades rotating.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVnIpv3MRO2
"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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU6dld0aFGY
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"Three years."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7g41hUSZW3
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4cLJ07vxA3
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxtUoj3s2lD
"Slate! What are you doing?! There are easier ways, we have a truck-" Mikey calls out.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0mtNZabXrs
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp7ivgrINam
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2cxFB3SpFc
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"Where are we goanna go?" Lyla asks. 96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDgbBiDlqhs
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"Anywhere WE want." Slate responds, pushing the helicopter forward and they fly off into the sun. 96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOEuG9o30Za
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Down below, several trucks park outside far away enough from The Compound which is located inside an old mine.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe9esvJ9nLv
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2tmjC6FgEY
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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-"96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSLKc6xLURF
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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. 96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhybvvXv6Mo
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Before Solayo can say a word, it's a headshot and his knocked down. "Better now, buddy?" Mikey asks.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtE0IgzuYiW
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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."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNISlbiXto0
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiCMOf2ywoC
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Grayson and Mikey compose themselves, standing up now that Cloud is gone. 96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡopxjEJ7WRQ
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"Where you think he goanna go?"96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡESEXYrbIR2
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTMeNfKuYjT
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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?"96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqguBwFN5FW
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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. 96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGKWVwx1SEO
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Gideon takes the map from her when she gasps for air, panicking and sitting upright, clutching her neck and arms.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhvVqdGGWJK
"You're okay, I bandaged them for you." He tells her and she relaxes, looking around confused where they are. 96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp268HKc4mH
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"You might want to give her one of the pills, Slate." Gideon tells him.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ42mADNP8vB
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKjMpkgvd7F
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"Bad news, they're gone, Gid."96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw0UkFQ5wEC
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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. 96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWRKT0OuMpp
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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. 96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6DQTs4gEbm
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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.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW9zZsDdnD1
