His eyes may have faded, but his raised hand remains steadfastly resolute amongst the crowd's impassioned voices. This man is one of the countless locals who literally witnessed their vision and livelihoods eroded away.
When Daedalus Architects' bulldozers paved over the neighbourhood's lifeblood river to create an access road for Danielson's concrete behemoths, it inadvertently contaminated the water table. Residents suddenly found their very tap water turned to a corrosive, milky brine laced with industrial runoff and slurry pollutants.
Having rerouted the river that once cleanly refreshed the area, the developer's negligence wrought a slow, agonising toll. Scores in the community began suffering degenerative eye conditions, gradually losing their sight and bearings in the name of urban renewal's collateral damage.
Now semiblindly groping amidst the hazy rubble of their unrecognisable hometown, victims like this man determinedly raise their hands and voices leading a vocal group of protesters standing resolute against the gleaming, hollow monoliths rising around them. Though robbed of vision, he becomes the vital witness that cuts through Danielson's myopic dogma of "revitalisation" at all costs.
