Tahachirou

How does one become a shadow in a land drenched in sunlight? For a long time, Tahachirou believed it was impossible. On The Fluorescent Isles, life was lived in the open air, among bright flowers and soaring dragons, but they felt most themselves when the rare drizzles came, muting the world to gray and silver. They once admitted this feeling of wrongness to a mentor, that their soul felt more like a storm cloud than a sunbeam. The mentor simply smiled. 'The sun shows everyone the path,' they said, 'but the rain washes the footprints away.' Tahachirou stopped hiding from the weather after that. They are still learning, but they understand now: true stealth isn't about waiting for night, but about walking unseen in the one thing no one else on these bright islands ever looks for.