Placed surprisingly close to the city center, a new mission and homeless shelter had opened, a building not quite unique for it's purpose, but probably surprising to those who thought of shelters.

For this wasn't just a place to house the worst off, some throwaway flophouse for the indigent and hopeless. No, instead it was built almost along the lines of a mid-size apartment building, a good seven floors with spaces set aside for certain purposes.

The ground floor was reception, storage and training rooms, where people could register for the mission, use lockers to store their things safely without risk of them being stolen, and even try and retrain for jobs.

The second was split primarily into cafeteria, bathrooms and a laundry room, where people could come, eat, bathe and wash their things, even get free clothes from donations.

Further up from there were rooms, split between dormitory style for some, and more private rooms for those who needed them.

This was not a dumping ground, no. This was a place where those who had fallen could at long last pick themselves back up.