Slate, Lyla, Gideon, Paisley and Bethany at each of their own respective tables are packing tinned food into crates, aprons and hair nets donned. 202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy056EkjOTq
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoOm8CFYmUz
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"Can we talk outside?"202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzQJ4zRb9c9
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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?"202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTQMS4RSTLj
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And she leaves, no one answering her. 202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMmezCKr21N
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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...202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡolRrqeALlg
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQkukQcQSPQ
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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."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ617RoWtrCM
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"You want to finish what Slate started?"202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrarTk2jH89
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"Why not? Break them out. We're all in the position to help them."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEGmuAufF0w
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNcS4yuXRHc
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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. 202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuYNDHIrHzE
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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."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCDAV9MSyfR
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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."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzo2uDzHx6m
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"What?"202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ16u9dyKQAz
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"Crashback."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLznRfDz51r
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"But that won't undo the last few years of-"202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEfTyDLIhfo
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDa1XjlZ6zQ
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKKnunGLizd
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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."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIyiOOKnn0W
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"Like his leadership skills?"202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbVD1ol1ctC
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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."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡst45mZVUUp
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"So how do we do that? His skills are still something that would be a spot target."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ30aytlQi4P
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"Well, it's going to leave two holes in his head. They'll heal, but-"202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnWWSmWpo3t
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"Shit."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡotqDG0GRji
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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."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡscOjvK1IFx
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"And what about the rest?"202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ra1gFbXAD
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"They're fine, they can just keep doing their sorting task."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡct1ftVqKn1
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkWUUaFwv2H
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡukMPHuo8oK
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4e1sgcYRXS
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUGcn5vZpgH
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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. 202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd7kzhMiIN7
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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. 202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe6fwlK12Sh
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvQVw3RsGAy
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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. 202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxe8rj7CHZg
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0qgaSRg4Aa
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbHOCScr8aA
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAgwAPxCWhU
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8XLekKmCxb
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"I wouldn't play with that if I were you. The last person who did was severed from me."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Od7ragZ8V
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Says a voice, female. "Hello?" He calls out. No reply is heard.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcXXm0IyY9o
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"Why am I here? What am I supposed to do?!" He yells out fustrated. "Who am I?"202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpq0PNlYZ45
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"Your heart knows who you are and you know what you are supposed to do."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdETTRKKkYv
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3kmIWAQyRP
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9OSWVJxSJq
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf50OxiAKdg
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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-202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFIDZdcX9Lu
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And then his eyes widen, he sits up straight and looks them both in the eyes. 202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU50ChqAxOZ
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"Do you know who you are? Who we are?"202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVvUvwHhvfa
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"Slate. You both are the leaders, Ester and Mikey. What have you both done? You're monsters."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEyp9iD1sEg
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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. 202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5rJSS95L2M
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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. 202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeomqh4Yojm
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We'll meet up with ya'll later outside. We'll run you a distraction."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQrRrVeAcSK
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOKaKUJlsfB
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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. 202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0dclT4EZlJ
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0mEba6WCM4
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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. 202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjY7Ijb8ZFr
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhB4DoXGgCk
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR0B5GR0dlJ
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbZOCNXEKJf
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We ran outside for help and the guards took her away, proably to triage."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHIKcMEm5xZ
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5jxjtCDCLa
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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."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEg6bT0VQy7
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXBqSme1ZV6
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG20b5v5ysJ
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"Why are we doing this?" Gideon asks. 202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeXKJjjrSud
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"You might understand once you've taken it."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY6yJoy4Jwg
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Lyla and Gideon shrug, downing them. Paisley just looks at them. "Paisley."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3PcKYeY5Mg
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"I don't need them, I'm not stupid like you all are."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoFV8wMLtzn
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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."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtR4OD9g0eZ
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdWwKwbUKo1
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4rKPtxejtq
He roughly grips Murphy's arms pulling him back. "Woah, look at you." Murphy says, eyeing Slate up and down. 202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe8e71w1pcC
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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."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa87UixUjta
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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. 202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC9eDcddePa
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So fly away, Slate."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbGlKsr8A57
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"I can't, I need to find, Beth."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiRDHiSuaSs
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"Uh, Infirmary I think. She was dragged out of the sorting room."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRutjEYDCxc
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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."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcH9H9GEHLi
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"Fucking psychotic bitches."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1D75ImfkhK
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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." 202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxqe4EI9whV
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIkVI5wXajU
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXGXUL1q0Yg
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFqW5goR9Av
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4rkSGXzXiX
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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."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYF0mxIqzUa
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnJF90KhWC7
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"Uh, did Bethany come through here?" He asks a nurse hoping she won't realize isn't security.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhM4rGkaart
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"Bethany?"202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfFSGpnTJ0q
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"Short blonde hair, blue eyes, she... cut heself."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡctuJZKybBT
"Uh, yep. She's in with a doctor now. Solayo's personal office I think."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDUTHDgvuit
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"Shit."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzAWCEkcAHF
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"Are you okay? You don't look so good. The bandage on your head, is it bleeding?"202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFd2iwydEMN
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRm0kiGQzFy
"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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzmLxEMKk0U
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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. 202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVtRYve3BF9
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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-202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡubY0KUKYjq
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"Solayo! Come in!" Solayo's walkie talkie picks up. Solayo sighs and answers while he preps a needle for Bethany. 202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa1vmBM5XRN
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"What is it Grayson? I'm kind of busy right now playing doctor."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlWM96EpSgt
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"You won't believe what I and Mikey just saw-"202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoHsofzlUqt
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"What?"202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdjdYgL96Kt
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"There is a bomb! Cloud NO joke rigged up a bomb."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡssT3PSvGXL
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"Come on-"202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQmSfcvtgZ2
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"We're going to evacuate everyone."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNoRNKnsOa3
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"Grayson, we can't. This place is too large for that and there are to many people for that."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpiSoZYKbfg
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"But-"202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiK4b2aMpC2
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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..."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu7c8KCAL8u
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"You can't be serious-"202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD8dF9dnz3G
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"It's that or everyone dies."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMH0icIu7Bt
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"Okay, we'll try." And Grayson clicks off the channel.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUbAV5ewVOw
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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. 202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡii3ayne1Gh
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"Slate, are you there?"202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡge4qoqLM06
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"Cloud's rigged a bomb."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwgp2A49Ljb
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"How'd you know?!"202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡye0W5gPwyC
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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."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiuanyn1aFg
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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."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWeRkAH9Wh1
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"Whatever, you'll handle it. I have to face off with Solayo right now, Bethany's with him!"202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvoQRgCOyYp
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"Shit. Why?"202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNvYHTZf4w2
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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. 202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs0XEMXLZsD
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"What the hell are you doing here? How did you get that?!"202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWiLBd1VbTB
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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. 202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgeaNK7T6tc
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"You're diffrent. What happened to you?"202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIV2JwpBK9q
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"Solayo, leave while you still can. There is a bomb."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjykb92Vvl7
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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. 202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwtn9t3BYAR
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"Dip shit!" He yells, pulling on it. "Solayo! Solayo, come back!" 202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJhFNTbWTXR
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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. 202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEGLC4eXulZ
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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."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ7smcogYPV
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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-"202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqJ7SFwVjyz
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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. 202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlibMvEkUoN
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVgL8NLXD0j
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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. 202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR0WTxksrCw
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡslbyoLNVsX
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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. 202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5PJMA80imV
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA3hu7HNd47
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"Shit, we'll have to go back and go around another way if we can." Gideon curses. 202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsF3f5tJHV0
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfUH23NAazw
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"I'm sorry, I don't want to alarm you. But we located Cloud, he rigged a bomb." 202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTrj6cY3L93
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She hands them her pass. "No! What about you? You can't leave us, Mum!" Lyla cries.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4VQIZ47HxR
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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?"202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLUHUhnrcb4
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtuFmpq37dh
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡODLOs4qrqP
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK6zANzHVb3
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl8tykDEjr5
"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!"202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyMC2KrKOEv
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"And maybe that's why you're not dead. Consider yourself lucky." Cloud speaks up and turns around leaving.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk8k3Yv7gva
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4EWRhWWvcb
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As they jump into the backseat, they see trucks everywhere driving around madly.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkmqs9kPh0H
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy8q43x3yfl
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSD5hFSxsxO
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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWqsXOoda2q
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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. 202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4inF1DdcKm
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3W4Er2bAat
"How we feeling everybody?" He asks as he starts up the helicopter, blades rotating.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTMbEvrXAYF
"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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtyiUoSEA3I
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"Three years."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtEhrCut8LN
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3W3O5F0iTk
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWGwC2QcOxP
"Slate! What are you doing?! There are easier ways, we have a truck-" Mikey calls out.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWZsAuiX2Ov
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZTcLrYMcFI
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcl9ExxhS8r
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"Where are we goanna go?" Lyla asks. 202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6xoKMGXNcW
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"Anywhere WE want." Slate responds, pushing the helicopter forward and they fly off into the sun. 202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0QijnM746H
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Down below, several trucks park outside far away enough from The Compound which is located inside an old mine.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnrig6XoWw9
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf3FQJKuyWb
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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-"202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIAQ6clEImP
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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. 202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0iZ1fmreHX
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Before Solayo can say a word, it's a headshot and his knocked down. "Better now, buddy?" Mikey asks.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyHIBsUkxnB
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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."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgKWVa6sUW2
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcLFAr2AmTb
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Grayson and Mikey compose themselves, standing up now that Cloud is gone. 202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUPbxs4VzGi
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"Where you think he goanna go?"202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVY1yAFYI6P
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFTu9kzSJwI
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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?"202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL89dxCifF5
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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. 202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ83ZyN82iSb
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Gideon takes the map from her when she gasps for air, panicking and sitting upright, clutching her neck and arms.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Ttga0ICfW
"You're okay, I bandaged them for you." He tells her and she relaxes, looking around confused where they are. 202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjAk315EZ8j
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"You might want to give her one of the pills, Slate." Gideon tells him.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Ng0NTZXTH
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ12OkeZo7CZ
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"Bad news, they're gone, Gid."202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmrk39Q4OiY
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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. 202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp2JSUWUuj2
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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. 202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeYR35fXyOB
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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.202Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPcthFnZwjb
