Drugs, Desire, and Destiny//emptydollzuki-museboxNano gazed down expressionlessly at a man laying face down in a ditch. His muscles were still twitching, his breathing ragged, his lips foaming as the rain washed his life away. The cause was not difficult to ascertain. He had seen it hundreds of times before.Line overdose.The fools never learned. They clamored over one another like beasts, biting and clawing one another to shreds, all for the sake of what? Once they reached the top of that elusive mountain peak, did they not realize that the only direction they could fall was down? Yet still they marched like mindless automatons to their own doom, dragging down and trampling one another as they fought their way to the top. For what?Perhaps there was nothing more to it. This was how the game of life was played, and he had been forced into the ring as a competitor. It would be their undoing. If they wished for the power that he possessed, then he would give them exactly what they wished… and watch them all fall at his feet. They would be their own undoing.Nano was about to turn away and leave the man to his fate, when something caught his attention. There was something familiar about this man, something from long ago. The blood he smelled on him was not purely his own. Slowly he knelt down and lifted the man’s arm. The rain was rapidly washing away the mixture of blood and dirt together with the man’s life. Nano pressed his tongue to the man’s palm.He blinked in silence, his body going still. Could it be?This man’s blood was… sweet? Delicious, in fact. In truth, it was a mixture of three people’s blood - his own, that of null-nicole, and… something else. Something very familiar.Nano turned the man’s body to get a better look at his face. How strange… he knew him. He was another test subject at ENED, one he had once been paired with for reasons beyond his comprehension. Code name K.For a moment Nano was silent as he contemplated this turn of events. The man’s breathing was growing ever more shallow. Soon the tremors would start as his body was torn apart by a dual combination of immune response and withdrawal symptoms. The pain would be unbearable. In all likelihood, he would not survive.Without the slightest change in expression, Nano picked the man up and carried him back to the greenhouse. It would be simple enough to administer a sedative. Nano wasn’t sure where the path before him would lead, but his curiosity was peaked. Were their destinies somehow intertwined?