Chimper #3632
What happens when a collector of trinkets finds something that collects them? Ban was once just a cheerful angler, known throughout The Great Panda City for the colorful river stones they arranged proudly on their headgear. They spent their days by the high-altitude rivers, poncho shielding them from freezing winds, seeking not fish but perfectly smooth pebbles. One afternoon, their line pulled taut with an impossible weight. They reeled in a creature with scales like captured lightning, humming with an energy that made the air crackle. Overjoyed, Ban took a single scale and added it to their display. They are still the same joyful explorer, but the Panda Council watches them now. Before a storm, the scale on their head glows, and their gleeful eyes hold a static charge. What did they really catch that day by the river?
