The Stormchaser Who Collected Lightning
Power Harnessed Through Vulnerability
Thorn chased storms with a glass sphere strapped to his back, hoping to catch lightning. People called him mad, but he insisted storms spoke to him. One night, he found himself at the center of a colossal tempest. Lightning struck the sphere, filling it with swirling light. Instead of triumph, Thorn felt overwhelming sorrow—each bolt carried pain from the sky, grief from the earth, longing from the horizon. He realized lightning wasn’t power—it was emotion breaking free. Thorn opened the sphere, releasing the storm’s tears back to the sky. From that day, he no longer hunted storms; he listened to them.
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