naftakin, the blind            
                                   
                                          
 a student at  the  charcoal guild... his 
 eyes sewn  shut  from birth...  the most 
            successful student            
                                          
 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...               
                                          
 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 
                                          
 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.        
                                          
 for years he  studied at the  guild.  he 
 became  a  master, and then  a  pilgrim. 
 yet the  image  from the cave never left 
                   him.                   
                                          
 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 
                 them...