She was 1 of the un/ucky ones. She was also getting tired of playing her wavatar on the side of the street & decided she might as well leave because nobody was leaving her any dits anyways. So she packed her instrument, zipped up her plastic coat & headed across town. She was sad as per usual, yesterday had been her birthday & she had spent it alone ( birthdays were never great for her growing up so she didnt expect anything really, but somehow she still felt it more ( the loneliness that is ), but nowadays she was always alone, also now with regular frequency she would jolt awake at night after having dreams/nightmares of that day 3 months ago when a sortie from the dark palace ransacked her humble hideaway nestled in the mountains. A couple of her friends got out like she did, but most were either detained or killed. That mountain hideaway had been her sanctuary & it was also the first time she had been clean in as long as she could remember. It took her 2 weeks to find the seedy little town she was currently laying low in & on the second day she was already so stressed out from keeping an ever vigilant eye out for the palace patrol that she had to score some flooid capsules just to settle down her screaming nerves. She had managed a year & a half clean in hideaway ( the shakes were an absolute bitch in the the beginning, but she persisted ), it was the most lucid & content she had felt in her entire life, which wasnt saying much because her life had been fairly abysmal up until that point. She was what was commonly called a flooid baby, due to the fact that her mother was severely hooked on pure flooid all throughout her pregnancy. When she was born she had to be fitted with an injector in her arm because at 6 weeks old she was already going through intense withdrawals & the med-bots were afraid she would succumb to the pain unless they could ween the toxic stuff out of her system with anti-floo. She was 13 when she first tried flooid on her own, just after her mother ODd when mom finally graduated from flooid & started injecting straight hypr ( her father had never been in her life ).

As she walked across town she kept flashing back to that deadly day at hideaway. The scene that had been seared into her mind was when she watched ( hidden in a toilet ) a patroller wrestling with her chum chez on a high bridge. Chez was struggling against his opponent & was even able to wrestle the patrollers stun gun into his hands & turn it on him, but before he could pull the trigger another patroller snuck up & clubbed chez from behind, the two took a moment to collect themselves then causally kicked his lifeless body off the side of the mountain. As she walked silently through the grey streets smoking a stim stick she cursed that fucking phaser who brought that dimensional drifter into her town. She knew that lil punk was trouble from the get go. She ducked into a subtube to save time on her cross town hike. The tube was mostly empty expect for a couple floozies slowly shuffling to keep themselves from full body lock. She knew that would be her eventual fate, but she just could not seem to muster up any sympathy for them.

The tube let her out just 3 blocks from the spot downtown where her hook-up posted up. The pusher ironically set up shop in a dark alley behind a church of the Infine. Her mother had been a disciple of the infinite when she was a child (& by default so was she ) but seeing the church fail them over & over again while her mother was trying to kick her 4x a day injection habit really left a sour taste in her mouth. Deep in the back or her mind there lived a belief that the Infine were real, but the actual organization around it seemed to be complete bullshit in her estimation. Without even looking its way she casually elevated her middle finger as she walked by the enormous crisscross haloed in green that was erected at the front of the building, then snuck around the rainbow tinted ornamental architecture elements that encompassed the church cloister to the back where she found her hook-up.
The flooid dispenser was a dark wiry man with a cool looking heavy jacket & long black hair that covered ½ of his notably pale face. She had scored off him before. He was expensive, but his stuff was quality ( she hadnt had a rejection even once using his junk ). He sported a small green drop pin on his left breast pocket ( a signifier to anyone in the know that he was a “licensed” flooid dealer ). The dispenser had already sold her enough that he recognized her face so he skipped any pleasantries & she put up 3 fingers ( for 3 vials ), he pulled them out so fast it seemed like a magic trick. She rummaged through her pockets & pulled out all the dits she had on her, but her attention was instantly taken by a noise coming from her left. She turned her head to see a women dressed in priestess robes shouting at them. Realizing the jig was up the dude instinctively grabbed all of the dits out of her hands & took off. Before she could even grasp what happened the priestess was by her side. She instantly began lying about what they had been doing, but the priestess silenced her & explained she was not mad at her, only the filthy dispenser & that she had a disease, the dispenser was only trying to exploit it & that their church had been working on a cure for the blight that is flooid. She was confused, but she followed.

Inside the cloister was beautiful, the priestess droned on for a bit about the many benefits of Infine life ( the same empty garbage she heard when she was young ), but after a while the priestess pulled something out of her pocket. It was a blue vial that contained a substance called joy.ce & it was a new form of anti-floo that had some interesting side effects. She was skeptical, but she could feel the flooid shakes starting to creep through her body & the dispenser had taken off with all of her credits so this seemed to be the only solution presenting itself. She poured the new floo into her injector & sat back. The room fell away & suddenly she was in the sky surrounded by beings made of clouds, most were around her height, but there were a couple that were much larger & off in the distance she could see a massive being that towered over everything which she guessed was one of the Trifine. A wave of euphoria splashed over her & all her troubles & pain washed away. The cloud beings were beginning to notice her now. They began moving towards her & embracing her. At first she was weary of their touch, but it was clear they meant her no harm. The group was quickly enveloping her, but she felt no claustrophobia, she wanted more, more connection, more love. She peered up & saw the visage of the Trifine looking down on her & then she awoke. She felt a newness that she hadnt experienced since she was 13.