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...