By: Daiyu Tang
Dear readers, I am glad you’re with us today, a year after the terrible events that shook our city, culminating in the destruction by terrorists from the Yuugen and Rejects, of the Hathian General Hospital.
Who can forget the scenes of carnage that enveloped the streets as the attackers stormed the Hospital and proceeded to commit atrocities in the name of nothing but madness.
As one of the seminal moments in the history of Hathian, the Observer was there to document both the tragedy and the aftermath, but in the year that has followed… have the scars really healed? Have the new bricks and mortar of ‘new’ HGH replaced the memories of the old? What, if anything, positive has grown from the rubble?
Reader, it breaks my heart to know that those who are dead, such as Catalina Ramirez (pictured left) are no longer with us, yet the feet of Yuugen and Reject members who were part of this atrocity still pound the city streets, seeking their rent from us as citizens.
What price the wages of terrorism? In Hathian it feels, a slap on the wrist.
But Change Did Happen…
Despite death there was some form of justice, albeit temporary. The Yuugen Leader Hitori Yamato was jailed, while brick by brick reconstruction happened until eventually Hospital Administrator Simon LeMarchand was able to open the new hospital, finally giving citizens their avenue for proper treatment once more. Gone were the temporary medical facilities in a parking lot or in the overflow space at the CU Clinic and in their place rose the new HGH.
But as always within Hathian, there were oddities and the Observer only uncovered some of these after time passed….
Yua Matsumoto (pictured right) was one of the hostages during the HGH siege and while she gave a harrowing account to the Observer afterwards, it was not long before she joined the Yuugen herself – the kidnapee becoming a member of the terrorist group that had inflicted so much on her.
This was the cycle, the cycle of violence and anger in Hathian…
But reader, perhaps that is unfair of me, perhaps a new leaf in some ways has been turned…
You’ll remember the charity donations that spiralled into the millions of dollars. A raffle at the Pawn Shop, donations by the HPD, a black tie party hosted at Luxure and the generosity of the Lions’ family.
You pitched in and now, standing strong and serving the medical needs of Hathian (give or take a propensity to allegedly harbour Alice Crow – a wanted murderer) the new HGH under Simon continues to serve the community and ensure that despite all that Hathian throws at you, you can get help and will get help if possible.
Wishing Hathian a safe 2024 and wishing you, dear reader, spend a moment reflecting on those that lost their lives in that fateful July of 2023. RIP
