,:~††&#¶¶@ @¶¶#&††~:,
,:~††&¶@## ##@¶&††~:,
,,,,:††&#@ @#&††:,,,,
,:~††&#¶## ##¶#&††~:,
,:~†&#¶@## ##@¶#&†~:,
,:~††&#¶@# ,,,†,,, #@¶#&††~:,
,:~††&#¶@# 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... #@¶#&††~:,
,,,,:~†††# #†††~:,,,,
,,,,,:~†&# #&†~:,,,,,
,,,,,:~~†# #†~~:,,,,,
,:~††&##¶@ @¶##&††~:,
,:~††&#¶@# #@¶#&††~:,