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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwUpZYxpptj
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"Can we talk outside?"104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmVptiYNIaK
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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?"104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpXm2IiaCrr
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And she leaves, no one answering her. 104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNULoNtXZT2
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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...104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6WYdc3o0xt
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyNyWDBeL9F
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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."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6PAMFRw9aJ
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"You want to finish what Slate started?"104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB1bWlYjT59
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"Why not? Break them out. We're all in the position to help them."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmiYCwEFjNY
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1GBo85w9qG
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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. 104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ83XN9nYbiW
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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."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzMJwWylXUD
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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."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTaYEEE5yuz
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"What?"104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPnonk5d0Iw
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"Crashback."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUsPx7y3Ywn
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"But that won't undo the last few years of-"104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwfMaYWjZQL
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLqaQR9ggMe
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFQq34E8g1G
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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."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfByU3WQmxL
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"Like his leadership skills?"104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9G9a9WDq5a
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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."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2569AoIzae
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"So how do we do that? His skills are still something that would be a spot target."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnifibTYXNq
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"Well, it's going to leave two holes in his head. They'll heal, but-"104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhrp5BAQkxJ
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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."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyDvOESEaMy
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"And what about the rest?"104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9NbRBYtPv3
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"They're fine, they can just keep doing their sorting task."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjyvBchD3oJ
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUzpUv8br1c
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCcfBpnGTLD
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbqU3PYbRzk
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWwqX29NkNl
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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. 104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ezvP1p4SV
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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. 104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqC6xdlDW6u
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV8MqublRZE
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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. 104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ8FU18Zunn
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt3918fqXOV
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEwepqVybaL
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWeaOtJdBxH
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcF0EZaddeF
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"I wouldn't play with that if I were you. The last person who did was severed from me."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmLGnYxy4Sb
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Says a voice, female. "Hello?" He calls out. No reply is heard.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSNGaMFuQdn
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"Why am I here? What am I supposed to do?!" He yells out fustrated. "Who am I?"104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ03ClaAw8h6
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"Your heart knows who you are and you know what you are supposed to do."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCjkGwl8Amm
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgLneBB7dWn
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDm9G3SkV3y
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI4fEPTeH2K
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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-104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnaFWNE215S
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And then his eyes widen, he sits up straight and looks them both in the eyes. 104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgJCzanFPLM
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"Do you know who you are? Who we are?"104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpRA6pwO4wJ
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"Slate. You both are the leaders, Ester and Mikey. What have you both done? You're monsters."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4upZYs3Hgs
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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. 104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjlNCrfhMyy
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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. 104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz2V1hCJeyW
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We'll meet up with ya'll later outside. We'll run you a distraction."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYdCi9ddUQi
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDCgVuu5H0t
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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. 104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDMTESsZW57
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoSHABAjSJO
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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. 104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzKm6Hp9pid
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMpnHcb1Sg5
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ir2sGYf3m
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4bMlbmXFNT
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We ran outside for help and the guards took her away, proably to triage."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmK1wYkn3Bh
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAQLZS2d6Gl
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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."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7zC57gZkSD
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUZe5chrDDz
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGAsEpG8b23
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"Why are we doing this?" Gideon asks. 104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡooWoBfI4wN
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"You might understand once you've taken it."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpYk2vS7mKS
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Lyla and Gideon shrug, downing them. Paisley just looks at them. "Paisley."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRpBSbPSlBj
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"I don't need them, I'm not stupid like you all are."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI9aZ9zWV9w
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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."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyZhsbRyKSY
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1PdbysDLN8
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRWRkIBLiSY
He roughly grips Murphy's arms pulling him back. "Woah, look at you." Murphy says, eyeing Slate up and down. 104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡke2Xul194e
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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."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw4oIg15at3
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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. 104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7GKGnCI4ne
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So fly away, Slate."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcKLJiFIEWu
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"I can't, I need to find, Beth."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7vmel4vQLP
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"Uh, Infirmary I think. She was dragged out of the sorting room."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrvvoeONdgV
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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."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD0EygU4gDN
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"Fucking psychotic bitches."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBtbYbSb6cJ
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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." 104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7eoR5gPepi
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbtoT1YKOBU
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhsBRlyMIOt
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHYi3iUY5Du
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI0zHkCBdVP
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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."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAWhuPdxbUv
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡufnROZWbIC
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"Uh, did Bethany come through here?" He asks a nurse hoping she won't realize isn't security.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPWt0RhMkrQ
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"Bethany?"104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgSoSxha4Y1
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"Short blonde hair, blue eyes, she... cut heself."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3BLljipSDA
"Uh, yep. She's in with a doctor now. Solayo's personal office I think."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOuRvWn0pa9
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"Are you okay? You don't look so good. The bandage on your head, is it bleeding?"104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDxGbRC2o37
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡamZW55y9cE
"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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLoKcn4c0Xo
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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. 104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUa0y6IQj1x
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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-104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtRaqvoiYOi
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"Solayo! Come in!" Solayo's walkie talkie picks up. Solayo sighs and answers while he preps a needle for Bethany. 104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0SoNfSuElD
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"What is it Grayson? I'm kind of busy right now playing doctor."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyZLa12y37D
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"You won't believe what I and Mikey just saw-"104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9aelRw9aK7
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"What?"104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJduJTnrv6F
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"There is a bomb! Cloud NO joke rigged up a bomb."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHEtesqT8O9
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"Come on-"104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdg7VPbY8ZK
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"We're going to evacuate everyone."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRcpV94Fvra
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"Grayson, we can't. This place is too large for that and there are to many people for that."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsXifL0Rvah
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"But-"104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAJgDZP0SnC
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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..."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0OZaOFsXEJ
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"You can't be serious-"104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNAGPbZKXvJ
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"It's that or everyone dies."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVLPNJCNKyS
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"Okay, we'll try." And Grayson clicks off the channel.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpA2bS8GNBx
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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. 104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwQ48n1e6ge
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"Slate, are you there?"104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMKzr9ZuIVS
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"Cloud's rigged a bomb."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDnFCAHtJcM
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"How'd you know?!"104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwdHQ7ppch9
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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."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjWOzVy8QGD
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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."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ16CN1pfcCi
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"Whatever, you'll handle it. I have to face off with Solayo right now, Bethany's with him!"104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMRHoEw9inN
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"Shit. Why?"104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1WIWlQQyHE
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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. 104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJbhlgm47F0
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"What the hell are you doing here? How did you get that?!"104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPHgFdLG9eH
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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. 104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRoRAW7kEah
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"You're diffrent. What happened to you?"104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG4LpwZGcVc
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"Solayo, leave while you still can. There is a bomb."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvyA6P9FVoG
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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. 104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJvJaK1N2dT
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"Dip shit!" He yells, pulling on it. "Solayo! Solayo, come back!" 104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8mU8jCVnmf
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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. 104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCwY9QSHaMC
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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."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL5r4MP9bvw
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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-"104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgHt4D2TyqH
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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. 104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAARBGuPjOB
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9D37GVQCQr
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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. 104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX0xJY3Zmbi
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8LfT9JETYm
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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. 104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxswEzocFBx
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxLpSVzrXNa
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"Shit, we'll have to go back and go around another way if we can." Gideon curses. 104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7CfB7nxrZK
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyV904LrO3u
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"I'm sorry, I don't want to alarm you. But we located Cloud, he rigged a bomb." 104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2FhrmFsLgA
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She hands them her pass. "No! What about you? You can't leave us, Mum!" Lyla cries.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlSGkwPgCDp
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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?"104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJSg7nwIsiY
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB1ZFFVMd0e
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg3suT8Y4WL
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOBNhfneYXT
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCEI692D5YH
"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!"104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ifGjuDrQ1
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"And maybe that's why you're not dead. Consider yourself lucky." Cloud speaks up and turns around leaving.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnIhbkLstCS
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOtmjK0SVUI
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As they jump into the backseat, they see trucks everywhere driving around madly.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡppG0OMcAL6
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡboLZxfDJ6W
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkcrkgQqrJL
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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfZCwajLG9X
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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. 104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTg6FTMlpLF
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzevCG7rCDy
"How we feeling everybody?" He asks as he starts up the helicopter, blades rotating.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgUhJBnugDK
"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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ2oXQOZqCe
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"Three years."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4HwTgFAXiJ
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMIYc9CAfnc
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7dKesJZFtg
"Slate! What are you doing?! There are easier ways, we have a truck-" Mikey calls out.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ93DcWL5P6J
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGyTPo11n9S
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPKejHC8IEL
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"Where are we goanna go?" Lyla asks. 104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡleX23rG0zn
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"Anywhere WE want." Slate responds, pushing the helicopter forward and they fly off into the sun. 104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxGY3u5ldgD
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Down below, several trucks park outside far away enough from The Compound which is located inside an old mine.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZqJXhqiuIA
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTMCGQKvZPH
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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-"104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJQxZBg812l
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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. 104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTMp41nP3RT
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Before Solayo can say a word, it's a headshot and his knocked down. "Better now, buddy?" Mikey asks.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9kBY5OUzHt
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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."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyhz3QLFn8t
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB6GqkeNX2W
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Grayson and Mikey compose themselves, standing up now that Cloud is gone. 104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbCCIu83xNY
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"Where you think he goanna go?"104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQfBP4xood9
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡce0aRctVcp
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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?"104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaPDufn6FkX
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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. 104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZxsgVdk5uw
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Gideon takes the map from her when she gasps for air, panicking and sitting upright, clutching her neck and arms.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiwISY8Oa7x
"You're okay, I bandaged them for you." He tells her and she relaxes, looking around confused where they are. 104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyEHGVePluD
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"You might want to give her one of the pills, Slate." Gideon tells him.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhwKyB4aYpE
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjmjhjHiHgJ
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"Bad news, they're gone, Gid."104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCXV8V2iscm
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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. 104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1bAprqs9jc
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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. 104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAdRnode06c
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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.104Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLwSsIAllRT
