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...