A familiar road manager was leaning on the side of the wagon, drinking a cup of coffee and watching the sun rise. Noticing Rain, he spared her a crooked smile.
"Ah. It's you again, Rani."
Rain almost stumbled.
'Damn.'
Rani is what she was known as on the road crew. Since she was hiding here, using her own name would have been silly… the problem was that Rain had not thought about that right until the moment she was asked to introduce herself.
So, put on the spot, she had failed to come up with anything and mumbled the first thing that entered her mind.
Which was why her teacher had mocked her relentlessly for a whole week.
"No, really? Rani? The best you could do was shift two letters around? I just can't… gods, everything I've been through, and I'll die of laughter…"
Rain had endured the mockery for as long as she could, and then kindly reminded her teacher that he went around calling himself Shadow.