The woman was a single person among many who had suffered a similar fate at their hands.
Before such people ever had a single connection to them, they were able to live lives that they could be more proud of.
Even if they were not stable, they could at least say that they were able to get by from one day to the next.
Perhaps some of them were able to build a better life for themselves that was full of all kinds of potential until such a change took place due to such an intervention that turned their entire lives upside down.
The woman was left alone for a brief time, where she was able to drown herself in that euphoric state she had been seeking.
Her relief was only brief as reality returned to her quite harshly the moment that the contents of the packet had lessened.
There was not much left for her, and she had yet to fully return to a more stable state of mind.
There was brief grogginess that came along with the confusion and feeling of being drained the moment that she was coming out of the high.
Her body had certain cravings for things that it needed to replenish itself, but she was left there without any food or water.
Her body was still left in a state where she could quite easily get sick if she was left there too long.
The cold and damp that she escaped from had returned to her all of a sudden as the accumulated stress on her body caught up to her.
It was like she had been running on empty energy but was keeping herself going with some kind of energy steroid or form of placebo.
The moment that the effects ran out, all that would remain would be the effects that would have already been present within the body and what had followed from not resting and making use of such a thing.
After the high was the comedown feeling, where the emotional states would go from one extreme to another.
One moment it could be a euphoric and pleasant feeling, before feeling a very low mood and physical state where the excitement of the experience had disappeared, being replaced with stress.
All of the good feelings were gone, and only the bad remained.
Her situation did not look too good as she continued to have her vacant gaze fixed on the packet in front of her.
It was almost like that sole packet had become her only form of support.
It was more like her escape from the terrible reality of everything that she would soon have to wake up to.
Reality would soon set in for her as the hopelessness of her life would become clearer with each passing moment.
As more time passed by, she was soon removed from that location and taken to another location.
A decision had been made on how to make a little more profit out of her before she would lose even that little bit of usefulness for them to squeeze out of her while they still could.
The operations of the gang seemed to continue as usual while they kept the broken puppet stored there until they could find someone to take a look at it.
When someone finally did arrive, they brought in a large toolbox along with them to begin working on it to figure out how it worked.
The moment that they arrived, they adjusted their spectacles while squinting their eyes as they looked upon the broken puppet.
He let out a sigh before sounding annoyed. "Damn, amateurs. What good is calling me over to take a look at something when you have gone and destroyed so much? You are just making my job that much harder to figure out the key components and how it works."
He grumbled to himself while scolding those who had been responsible for causing such damage.
What interested him the most was how he had heard that it was described as some form of combat robot capable of standing up to many of them.
It did sound like something worth studying to see how it worked and to see if such a thing could be replicated by his hands.
Having it in such a terrible state in front of his eyes was something that angered him.
He could only lament that those responsible for that damage should have been a lot more careful with handling and capturing it.
It would have been so much better if he could have studied it while it was still in a much better condition.
If it were still working and there were parts that were functioning as they should, then it would make it easier for him to look at how it functioned.
Since it was so damaged and appeared to be dead or broken, there was less of a chance of successfully being able to achieve such a feat.
Despite having those disadvantages, he still moved closer to the puppet to begin using his tools on it to take it apart piece by piece so that he could get to what was beyond the outer layer.
The moment that he started tinkering around to look inside, his gaze hardened further when he spotted several parts that had been inactive, disconnected or loose.