For 481 - prompt: hungry


70. Data

Arkadimon is dying, it knows. Its hunger is stronger than it.

Even as its body grows and grows, it is dying. There is something inside him burrowing as deep as it can. It eats at his data, his soul, his life itself.

It is so so hungry.

It's starving.

Maybe if he eats the right thing, he can live longer.

So he keeps eating, keeps killing, keeps growing.

It doesn't work. He's still dying.

Something… laughs.