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#¤†--..... NAFTAKIN, THE BLIND .....--†¤#
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####¤††--. A STUDENT AT THE CHARCOAL GUILD... HIS .--††¤####
####¤††--. EYES SEWN SHUT FROM BIRTH... THE MOST .--††¤####
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##†--..... BUT ONE DAY HE FELL DOWN INTO A CRYSTAL .....--†##
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####¤††--. GREAT HALL WITH ONLY A SINGLE TINY .--††¤####
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####¤††--. 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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