Westbound Script -

This example illustrates the unique characteristics of the Westbound Script, including scene headings, action lines, character descriptions, dialogue, and transitions.

Discovered in the 1990s at the Mizan archaeological site, the Tokharian Slant is written bottom-to-top on bamboo slips—an orientation found only in certain divination scripts of the Shang Dynasty. The scribe would hold the slip vertically, but rotate the characters 90 degrees to the left. The result, when laid flat, looks like falling rain. Westbound Script

As new archaeological digs resume in the Kyrgyzstan highlands (regions previously inaccessible due to mining restrictions), we may soon discover volumes more. Until then, each surviving shard of Westbound Script whispers the same message it did 2,000 years ago: “Goods went west. People went west. And we wrote it all down on the way.” This example illustrates the unique characteristics of the