Introduction: According to last year's Les Institutions Mondiales, the Monsoon Ministry has the most elusive offices in all of time and space. Unbeknownst to the adventurers and clerks that compile Les Institutions, the hoary moss-choked mulberry forest behind the Ministry hides the last tenuous pathway to the remnants of bureaucratic realities forgotten even when the Jade Emperor was young.Meet Surpassing Sunlight, the third son of the Sunlights. Born to be a millet farmer, then disillusioned after a stint with the retail giant Gnome Electrical Appliances, the secrets he discovered during his feverish wanderings beyond the mulberries could fill a thousand footnotes to the next edition of Les Institutions Mondiales, maybe even reverse the tide of the chaos that is rapidly devouring our world... if anyone with half a brain knew Surpassing Sunlight held the answers to questions they never dared to ask.He is, after all, just around the corner, the newest gar?on at the Caf茅 des R锚veries....