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###&%††»., A STUDENT AT THE CHARCOAL GUILD... HIS ,.»††%&###
##&%††».,, EYES SEWN SHUT FROM BIRTH... THE MOST ,,.»††%&##
#&%††».,,, SUCCESSFUL STUDENT ,,,.»††%&#
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###&%††»., BUT ONE DAY HE FELL DOWN INTO A CRYSTAL ,.»††%&###
##&%††».,, CAVERN. IT WAS DEEP IN THE MOUNTAIN, A ,,.»††%&##
#&%††».,,, GREAT HALL WITH ONLY A SINGLE TINY ,,,.»††%&#
##&%††».,, INLET FOR BOTH LIGHT AND FALLING ,,.»††%&##
###&%††»., STUDENTS... ,.»††%&###
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#&%††».,,, IN THE FALL, THE QUARTZ SLICED OFF THE ,,,.»††%&#
##&%††».,, THREADS IN HIS EYES, OPENING THEM FOR ,,.»††%&##
###&%††»., THE FIRST TIME. BEFORE HIM, THE ,.»††%&###
##&%††».,, CRYSTALS MIRRORED AND REFRACTED THE ONE ,,.»††%&##
#&%††».,,, LIGHT SMIDGE INTO A WHOLE NIGHT SKY, ,,,.»††%&#
##&%††».,, AND HE WAS STRUCK DOWN WITH AWE ,,.»††%&##
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##&%††».,, BUT ALSO WITH SHAME, BECAUSE HIS EYES ,,.»††%&##
#&%††».,,, HAD SEEN. HURRIEDLY, HE USED THREAD ,,,.»††%&#
##&%††».,, FROM HIS ROBE TO SEW THEM BACK ,,.»††%&##
###&%††»., TOGETHER, AND WHEN HELP CAME HE DID NOT ,.»††%&###
##&%††».,, TELL OF HIS TRANSGRESSION. ,,.»††%&##
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##&%††».,, FOR YEARS HE STUDIED AT THE GUILD. HE ,,.»††%&##
###&%††»., BECAME A MASTER, AND THEN A PILGRIM. ,.»††%&###
##&%††».,, YET THE IMAGE FROM THE CAVE NEVER LEFT ,,.»††%&##
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###&%††»., AT THE END OF HIS LIFE, WHEN AT THE ,.»††%&###
##&%††».,, EDGE OF THE WORLD HE OPENED HIS EYES ,,.»††%&##
#&%††».,,, FOR A SECOND TIME, STARS HAD HATCHED IN ,,,.»††%&#
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