Napori

Napori keeps a meticulously updated list of every time they have bested Shukuko. It started as a simple scroll, but now fills three separate leather-bound journals. Their rivalry is a well-known spectacle in Waterfall City, a constant competition to see who can climb the main falls faster, chart a new river passage first, or secure the rarest supplies from the market plaza. Most onlookers see only the bickering and one-upmanship. They do not see the duo deep in the swampy outskirts, working in seamless sync to navigate a dangerous passage. They do not hear the way Shukuko’s boisterous plans are quietly refined by Napori’s sharp observations. Napori would never admit it, but the rivalry is the finest partnership they have ever known.