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.,~*%$@###            naftakin, the blind           ###@$%*~,.
..,~*%$@##                  ...*...                 ##@$%*~,..
...,~*%$@#                                          #@$%*~,...
....,~*%$@ a student at the  charcoal  guild... his @$%*~,....
.....,~*%$ 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...                  ..........
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