“Students pray to him and duck at the same time.”
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The demon-queller of the Dipper: one-legged, fierce-faced, brush in one hand and bushel in the other, standing on a giant turtle among the stars. He hurls the writing brush at scholars he favors — being hit by Kuixing's brush means topping the exams. Students pray to him and duck at the same time.
He is balanced on the turtle tonight, brush raised, scanning the examination halls below for a scholar worth hitting. His aim is famously terrible and famously perfect.
One night he will throw the brush and miss the scholar entirely — and the brush will keep flying, past the Dipper, past the turtle, into the dark between stars, where it will write one perfect character on the night itself. The scholars will read it in the morning. It will say: enough.
“He was aiming at a scholar — a good one, deserving — and the brush flew wide, past the Dipper, and wrote one character on the dark between stars. Wenchang looked it up in every dictionary in heaven. It isn't in any of them. Kuixing won't throw another until he knows what it says. The scholars are waiting. The character is waiting longer.”
Kuixing's brush wrote a character no dictionary holds.
The Jade Emperor’s court: the Queen Mother of the West, the thunder dukes, the star lords, the weaver and the cowherd. The bureaucracy of the cosmos — every god holds an office, every office holds a ledger, and somebody is always auditing.
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