Hou Yi
l'archer qui épargna un soleil
fireQuand dix soleils se levèrent à la fois et brûlèrent le monde, Hou Yi en abattit neuf et épargna celui qui nous réchauffe ; rêver de lui, c'est se demander quel excès dans votre vie doit être abattu avant que quelque chose de vert puisse repousser.
He was promised immortality and lost it twice — once to a thief, once to the moon; the greatest archer in heaven could not hit the one target that mattered.
His apprentice watched him draw the bow and learned everything except his mercy; skill without that last lesson is how the world burns.
On the hottest days the old people say the tenth sun is testing its courage, wondering whether nine brothers might come back.
Nine suns fell as golden crows into the sea, and the tenth he spared, for even an archer knows the world cannot live on glory alone.