[34 years old: You spent this New Year outside the Intensive Care Unit, waiting. You also discovered what truly happened. A terrifying exotic beast awoke from the depths of the grand canyon in the wastelands, sweeping across the entire wasteland and vanished towards the east.
Nobody saw the true appearance of this beast; everyone who laid eyes on it died. However, someone inside the city, using a telescope, seemed to have seen a giant illusion resembling a lizard, which was internally referred to by the Kewort Group as the 'Dark Lizard.'
Your wife was handling matters in the city and had just left when she encountered the passing Dark Lizard. Thanks to her Transcendent status, she didn't die but was severely injured. Fortunately, she was found by a passing Kewort Group mercenary corps, whose executive knew you both and rescued your wife.