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...