Chirina

Chirina sent a searing beam of light into the amber-leaved canopy, hoping the tactical goggles would finally calibrate. Instead of hitting the moss-covered log, the ray glanced off a sap-slicked branch and struck a colossal paper wasp nest. A furious buzzing cloud erupted. Below, a group of villagers mid-song looked up. Rather than scream, they saw the shimmering insects caught in Chirina's panicked secondary light pulse and thought it was a new kind of confetti. They began to dance, imitating the wasps' erratic flight. Chirina, frozen with anxiety, was hailed as a genius choreographer. They had been trying to follow the celestial path of Sutaraito, channeling cosmic energy into martial forms. It seemed their path was less 'rebel warlord' and more 'accidental festival planner'.