Ariana demorphed and had to be restrained as the N-Gauge took over.  She cried, oh how she cried, torn between wanting to be put out of her misery and wanting another fix as she thrashed about on the bed until exhaustion and a sedative took her down.  She still dreamed though, remembering her time as a mindless brute of the Niberian army, well, mindless in her opinion anyway.  She had reveled in her inhumanity, doing everything her evil masters wanted so long as they kept the N-Gauge coming her way.  Two years of beating others of her race down like trash, dismantling Resistance members like they were tinfoil, and even hunting down troublesome people had been but a few things she had been forced to do.<br/><br/>Two years of this, and it had been an ambush set up by one of the few friends she had left by then and several others had set her free.  Her parents had been there as well, and once she had been dried out of the N-Gauge, Ariana had left to make sure she could stay clean.  That had been two more years, the first couple of months quite like living in Hell since withdrawal was painful in more ways than one.  Now, Ariana moaned quietly in her troubled sleep, tossing and turning a little as the energy from the N-Gauge slowly started to bleed out and fade.