Harborlight Free Clinic

A walk-in clinic three blocks from the water — the only place in the neighborhood that asks what hurts before it asks what insurance you're carrying. Harborlight runs on grants, guilt money from the same developers gentrifying the block, and a staff perpetually one bad year from closing its doors. Half the neighborhood's real medical history, cape-adjacent and otherwise, lives unofficially in these files, because nobody trusts the hospital not to sell it.

Appearance: A narrow storefront clinic with a hand-lettered sign and a waiting room of mismatched folding chairs, fluorescent light buzzing over a worn linoleum floor. Everything here looks patched, donated, and kept running past its expected lifespan.

Type Civic Institution · Tone Underfunded Essential

• First Responder
• Concerned Parent

• The clinic's funding is being cut the same month a teammate needs it
• A patient's injury doesn't match any story that makes sense
• A donor wants naming rights in exchange for keeping the doors open