True Demonlord [3]

 "Stand in line, vigilantes," a ruffled crowd made for a sloppy interior of sterile scent. A day of fighting ended without satisfaction nor concrete achievement. In more ways than one, the task at hand was empty. Vacant walked the health care workers, vacant watched heroes from beyond a plastic sheet, and vacant were the lifeless gazes of the critically wounded. Report stood with 30 out of 50 injured, five of which fell into a comatose state. Nameless and faceless, they were the side characters, and everyone understood so, pawns, cogs of a better mechanism.