Word on the street... Storm clouds still hung heavy over Hathian’s cracked streets, and yesterday the city bled whispers like a wound refusing to scab. Word on the asphalt is that the Rejects made their move again—two shadows, a sharp-tongued woman with inked secrets on her neck and a towering man with a Scottish lilt, ambushed an officer near Lou’s, sparking a firefight no one saw coming. Meanwhile, the boarded-up pharmacy bore the scars of desperate hands—supplies looted in the storm’s chaos by a gang hungry for survival, not just profit. And in the undercurrent, chatter swirled about a brothel pushing for union, a strange flicker of control in a city that thrives on anarchy. Hathian’s heartbeat is ragged, but it never stops.