The prophecy was clear: an eagle devouring a snake marks the site of the new capital. Centuries later, the creatures, the landscape evolved, the roles of predator and prey have been reversed.
It's a beautiful San Francisco morning in California, world infamous Tenderloin. American flesh is slowly being ripped apart by the unforgiving claws of synthetic drugs from China.
This is a war story. Centuries after the prophecy the eagle is sick, the snake is a powerful dragon. You are part of this war, even if you think you are not.
The more you resist reality, the more brutal will be its grip when the war touches your family.
California legalized recreational drugs (not all of them), so old smugglers and cops made more money selling stories to Netflix. The Sackler family had already created an army of addicts selling OxyContin. Thus appeared a void between the high demand for opiates in the street, and the low compatibility of vintage narcotics trafficking with the realities of fentanyl.
Mexican drug cartels filled this void by importing fentanyl precursors from China and "encouraging" a shift towards an economy based on synthetic, rather natural drugs.
Everything will be laced with fentanyl: the Mexican milpa, the river bed, the pills meant to relieve pain or boredom. Everything in America will be laced with fentanyl, what that means can be experienced in the flesh on any morning in the Tenderloin of San Francisco.
This dragon would not take a breath without the Communist Party knowing: everything, from the DNA to the children of China, bows to it.
Is this your future America?