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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 ,,,,,~~†*&
@*††††~~-, 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 ,,--~~††&&
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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 ,-~††*&@##
###@*††~-, 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... ,,,,,-~†*@
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