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...