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...